[News] "China can play an important role in peace in Ukraine": Macron

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The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, said this Wednesday in Beijing, during a speech to the community of French residents in China, that this country has an "important role" to assume, to achieve peace in the war in Ukraine, for " its close relationship with Russia.

"China precisely proposed a peace plan (...) It is about the desire to have a responsibility and try to build a path towards peace," the president told the French community. "China, within its close relationship with Russia, reaffirmed in recent days, can play an important role" in resolving the war, Macron declared.

The president also stressed that China was right in rejecting the use of nuclear weapons in war. The "Asian giant" was emphatic weeks ago in seeking peace, an act that Macron thanked this Wednesday.

"China showed its commitment to the Charter of the United Nations, the territorial integrity and the sovereignty of nations," added the French president. The French leader highlighted the peace proposal presented by China for the conflict in Ukraine, and made it clear that although they have not accepted it in its entirety, "at least it shows a willingness to commit to seeking a resolution."

"This war, which I have repeatedly described as imperialist, colonial, has in fact trampled on many of the principles of the UN Charter, which we, as two members of the Security Council, must resolutely defend," he said, referring to France and China.

"I think that defending them is also walking together and trying to find a path towards peace," he added.

Do not “separate” from China
Macron asked that a "logic of blocks" not be reissued in the face of "voices that are raised" concerned about the future of relations between the West and China.

The French head of state, who had not been to China since 2019 due to the health crisis, wanted to distance himself from the confrontational diplomatic approach of the United States in recent years towards its Asian rival.

“More and more voices are being heard expressing strong concern for the future of relations between the West and China. And in a way they come to the conclusion that there is an irresistible spiral of increasing tensions,” he said. "I don't want to believe in this scenario," he said.

The French leader also wanted to remember the "particularly difficult" three years of pandemic that residents of China had to live through, but he was "happy" to return to the country after his last trip in November 2019. The French president arrived this Wednesday to China to begin a three-day visit in which he will meet with the country's president, Xi Jinping. There will also be a meeting in which the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, will join.

Macron will meet this Thursday with Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang and the Chairman of the National People's Assembly (Congress), Zhao Leji, to complete talks on issues related to climate change, food security and environmental issues. On his trip, Macron is accompanied by some sixty managers from large French companies or companies based in his country, such as Airbus, EDF, Alstom or Veolia, in search of commercial or investment agreements.

Before taking off for Beijing on Tuesday, Macron spoke by phone with his US counterpart Joe Biden, evoking a "common will to engage China to speed up the end of the war in Ukraine and participate in building lasting peace in the region." , according to the French presidency.

The French delegation also promised to address the issue of human rights, particularly in the Xinjiang region, where, according to several observers, Uyghur Muslims suffer repression.

This visit by Macron is the second to Beijing by a European leader, after the one closed last Friday by the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, after Xi's trip to Moscow last week, in which the Chinese leader and the Russian President Vladimir Putin showed the solidity of s

 

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