The European Union’s foreign policy commissioner, Josep Borrell, announced that the EU is considering China’s proposals for a settlement in Ukraine, but now considers that there are not enough important points in this initiative.
He pointed out that “China presented its position document on the political settlement. In fact, this is not a peace plan. It basically repeats China’s well-known positions, some of which we share, but there are important positions missing.”
“We will analyze it, of course, but it is now clear that the main problem is that it does not distinguish between the aggressor and the victim, and puts the parties on an equal footing,” he stressed.
Last Friday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry published a document consisting of 12 articles, presenting Beijing’s position on the political settlement of the Ukrainian crisis. The document called for an end to the fighting and the launch of peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine as soon as possible.
The document stressed a number of principles, including the need to abandon the Cold War mentality, the inadmissibility of achieving the security of a country at the expense of the security of other countries, and ensuring regional security by strengthening or even expanding military blocs, stressing that the legitimate security interests and concerns of all countries should be taken into consideration. seriously and reject double standards.
