CHINA-EU/UKRAINE: CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI ASKS EU TO DROP SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA IF IT WANTS CHINA TO MEDIATE
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The EU High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,
Josep Borrell Fontelles had a tele conversation with Chinese State Councillor and Foreign
Minister Wang Yi on March 7 regarding the situation in Ukraine. They agreed to continue
discussions after two days. One report states, however, that in private conversation some EU
officials disclosed that Wang Yi during his conversation with Borrell was clear that the EU
needs to drop sanctions if it wants China to intermediate. El Mundo earlier on March 4 quoted
Borrell as saying that China was the only possible mediator in the war. “We have not asked for
it, nor have they asked for it, but since it has to be a power and neither the US nor Europe can
be, China could be”.
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