Chinese envoy Li Hui will visit Warsaw on Friday to discuss the situation in Ukraine, Poland’s foreign ministry admitted on Tuesday.
“That’s how it will be,” ministry spokesman Lukasz Jasina told the French agency AFP, after a Polish journalist announced on the social network Twitter that Li would meet with a member of the Warsaw government.
Li, the special representative for Eurasian affairs charged with discussing the resolution of Russia’s war against Ukraine, will visit Kiev today and Wednesday, a senior Ukrainian government official told AFP on Monday.
In addition to Ukraine and Poland, the former Chinese ambassador in Moscow is also expected to visit France, Germany and Russia, with a view to “a political solution to the Ukrainian crisis”.said Beijing.
China has never publicly condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
Beijing presents itself as a neutral party and intends to play a mediating role, even if Moscow’s position as a close economic and diplomatic partner disqualifies it in the eyes of some European capitals.
In an initial phase of the conflict, Ukraine and Russia met to seek a solution to the conflict mediated by Belarus and later Turkey, but without success.
Ukraine is demanding the return of the five regions annexed by Russia as one of the conditions for any peace talks, but Moscow replies that Kiev must adapt to the new reality.
Since the start of the war, Putin has declared Ukraine’s Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporijia regions annexed to Russian territory, having done the same with Crimea in 2014.
Ukraine and the wider international community do not recognize Russia’s annexation of the five Ukrainian regions.
Ukraine’s Western allies have imposed sanctions on Russia to try to reduce Moscow’s ability to finance the war effort.
They have also supplied military equipment to the Ukrainian Armed Forces to fight Russian forces.
The war against Ukraine plunged Europe into what is considered the most serious security crisis since World War II (1939-1945).
The number of civilian and military casualties in the 15-month war is unknown, but several sources, including the UN, admit it will be high.
Source: DN
