Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will visit China next week following a formal invitation by President Xi Jinping, as the Asian country seeks to position itself as a mediator in the ongoing war in Ukraine. | Reuters
Xi has just concluded a three-day trip to Moscow, where he described China’s position on the conflict as “impartial”. Last month, Beijing put forward a 12-point peace plan and called for a comprehensive ceasefire.
Spain, a NATO member whose foreign policy is closely aligned with the United States, is a staunch ally of Ukraine and will assume the presidency of the Council of the European Union in July. In a trip to Kyiv on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion, Sanchez expressed his “unconditional support” to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and backed the latter’s peace proposal, which includes demands to restore Ukraine’s territory to the status quo before Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea.
Sanchez is set to take part in the Boao Forum for Asia – similar to the World Economic Forum held in Davos – in China’s Hainan province on March 30 before heading to Beijing the following day to meet with Xi. The latest bilateral talks between the two leaders took place in November 2022 during the G-20 summit in Bali, Indonesia.
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