China proposes peace talk to end the war in Ukraine

The protracted and escalating nature of the crisis in Ukraine, which has been going on for a year, has prompted China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang to call for the immediate resumption of peace negotiations.

According to Qin, the process of peace negotiations should start as soon as possible, and all sides’ legitimate security concerns should be taken into consideration.

He called the Ukrainian crisis, which started on February 24, 2022, with a Russian invasion, “an eruption of the difficulties built up in the security governance of Europe.”

The foreign minister claimed that attempts to hold peace negotiations had consistently been thwarted.

“There seems to be an invisible hand, pushing for the protraction and escalation of the conflict and using the Ukraine crisis to serve a certain geopolitical agenda.

“The crisis in Ukraine has come to a critical juncture. Either hostilities stop and peace is restored, and the process of political settlement begins, or more fuel is added to the flames and the crisis further expands and spirals out of control,” he said.

China recently made an attempt to explain its perspective on the conflict in a so-called position paper, but the paper was widely regarded with dismay and skepticism.

According to experts, the report did not provide any fresh initiatives for a peace agreement.

According to Qin, China did not give Russia any weaponry during the conflict and neither did Beijing start it or participate in it.

“Why on earth blame sanctions and threats against China?

“This is absolutely unacceptable,” he said responding to information cited by Washington last month suggesting that Beijing could provide “lethal support” to Moscow – a claim Beijing had already rejected – and warnings from the U.S. and Europe to China not to send weapons to Russia.