Lu Shaye’s comments raise fresh questions over China’s role in brokering peace in Ukraine
Estonia’s foreign ministry summoned China’s ambassador to Estonia to clarify the country’s position over its country’s sovereignty, calling Shaye’s position “incomprehensible”.
Lithuania’s foreign minister, Gabrielius Landsbergis, said the Chinese ambassador’s remarks demonstrated why European countries had little faith in China’s ability to play a constructive role in brokering peace. Vadym Omelchenko, Ukraine’s ambassador to France, said in a Twitter post: “There’s no place for ambiguity. Crimea is Ukraine. The Soviet empire no longer exists. History moves on.”
In a related development, Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on a visit to Portugal was forced to make some of his strongest criticisms of Russia’s invasion, afterIn Lisbon, he said: “The war should not have started. Russia should not have invaded, but it did. The fact is that it happened. So instead of choosing sides, I want to find a third way, the construction of peace.” Ukrainians protested outside the Brazilian embassy in Lisbon calling Russia a terrorist state.
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