Ukraine's first deputy foreign minister visited China on Wednesday and urged it to send a delegation to a planned summit on Ukraine this month in Switzerland, in the apparent hope it was still possible to persuade China to attend.
FILE PHOTO: China's Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong speaks during the Bilateral Consultations Mechanism on the South China Sea in Manila, Philippines, March 24, 2023. Francis Malasig/POOL via REUTERS/File Photo
Russia has not been invited to participate in the June 15-16 meeting. Beijing has so far said it will stay away, describing the attendance of both warring sides as a prerequisite for any substantive peace conference. Kyiv says more than 100 countries have accepted its invitation to the summit, to discuss provisions of a peace plan outlined by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to end the full-scale Russian invasion now in its third year.
The two sides"exchanged views on the Ukrainian crisis and international and regional issues of common concern," the Chinese ministry said.
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