President Volodymyr Zelensky, during a telephone conversation with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, discussed Beijing’s involvement in Ukraine’s peace initiatives and stressed the need to support our country’s sovereignty.
According to the correspondent of “European Truth”, he said this at a press conference in Kyiv.
“We had an important conversation. As for the future meeting, we didn’t talk about it. As for the important things that we talked about, they first of all concerned security. It is very important for us to involve as much as possible in our format, our peace formula. countries that could then put pressure on the Russian Federation in order to restore peace, restore our territorial integrity,” Zelensky said.
“We spoke about territorial integrity, sovereignty, all these issues and heard respect for all these principles,” the president added.
The phone call between Zelensky and the Chinese leader on April 26 was the first since the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
After the talks, it became known that China would send its representative on a visit to Ukraine and other countries for consultations on the settlement of the war.
Recall that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, in the context of a telephone conversation between the leaders of Ukraine and China, recalled that official Beijing could not condemn the Russian invasion .
Source: Euro Integration