Zelensky announces readiness to meet with Xi Jinping

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky is ready to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping. About this he informed in an interview with the Associated Press.

“We are ready to see him here. I want to talk to him. I spoke with him even before the full-scale war. But during this whole year, more than one year, we have not had [разговора]”, – he said.

In late February, after the publication of the Chinese plan to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, Zelensky said he would like to meet with Xi Jinping. According to the Ukrainian leader, he intends to discuss military operations in Ukraine and economic cooperation between the two countries with his Chinese counterpart. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China on this answeredthat Beijing is in contact with all parties to the conflict, “including Ukraine.”

On March 23, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak confirmed the plans of Xi Jinping and Zelensky to hold a conversation. He specified that the organization was complicated due to China’s position on the Ukrainian issue. “There is a question that China has not yet found its new political place. That is, whether he wants to take over the issue of a settlement between Russia and Ukraine, or will he still carefully stand aside, ”Podolyak said.

The next day, March 24, at the Chinese Foreign Ministry saidthat Beijing cannot yet provide any information about a possible conversation between Zelensky and Xi Jinping, reiterating that China is in contact with all interested countries.