Russia doesn’t want to proceed with China’s peace proposal “for now,” according to the Kremlin, as Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to pursue his original 'goals' for the war in Ukraine.
Russia doesn’t want to proceed with China’s peace proposal “for now,” according to the Kremlin, as Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to pursue his original"goals" for the war in Ukraine.
China unveiled a 12-point plan for the"Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis” that called for a ceasefire and the lifting of economic sanctions on Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky adopted a tone of guarded courtesy — “the fact that China started talking about Ukraine is not bad,” he said Friday — but China’s failure to call for Russia to relinquish any Ukrainian territory in exchange for the proposed concessions drew sharper criticism from his aides and Western officials.
“Obviously, any new peace proposals should now be aligned with demands set forth by the Resolution,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told the United Nations Security Council on Friday in a thinly veiled message to China. “We invite all countries from every corner of the world to facilitate implementation of the Resolution and the Peace Formulas. We need to act jointly and quickly.”
“Arming a country that defends itself from aggression is absolutely legitimate and is an act of defending the U.N. Charter,” he said. “On the contrary, helping an aggressor is illegitimate and defies the Charter. Any supply of weapons or military equipment to Russia means complicity in the trampling of the U.N. Charter. If you give weapons to Russia, you commit a crime.”
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