Foreign Minister Wang Yi expresses hope ‘all parties will not give up on dialogue’ in meeting with Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov at the UN in New York
China has renewed its calls for talks to resolve the ongoing Ukraine crisis as Foreign Minister Wang Yi met his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov for the first time since Vladimir Putin’s latest threat to use nuclear weapons.
“China will continue to uphold an objective and fair position to promote peace talks and hopes that all parties will not give up on dialogue efforts and insist on resolving security concerns through peace talks,” Wang said during the meeting at the United Nations in New York, according to the Chinese foreign ministry.
The Russian President upped his rhetoric on Wednesday in a speech that accused the West of “nuclear blackmail”, and said the country would “certainly make use of all weapon systems available to us” if its territorial integrity was threatened, adding: “This is not a bluff.”