UPI By Paul Godfrey
March 17 (UPI) — China’s President Xi Jinping use a state visit to Moscow next week to push for peace in Ukraine and to get the warring parties talking, Beijing said Friday.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Wang Wenbin said the visit by Xi, who is due to arrive in the Russian capital for the two day visit Monday, “boils down to one sentence, which is to urge peace and promote talks.”
But the spokesman stressed that China would uphold its “objective and impartial position” on Ukraine and all other regional and international issues.
Next week’s visit follows Putin’s visit to Beijing for a summit with Xi ahead of the Winter Olympics in February last year at which the pair called on NATO to rule out future expansion — especially Ukraine — and abandon “the ideological approaches of the Cold War.”
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