UNITED NATIONS: Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, stated that any UN Security Council action should be truly favourable to defusing the Ukraine situation.
"Any action should be actually conducive to defusing the issue, rather than adding fuel to the fire," Zhang said after the UN Security Council failed to accept a draught resolution on Ukraine submitted by the United States and a few other countries.
"If not handled appropriately, or if pressure and sanctions are applied indiscriminately," the envoy warned, "it would only result in more casualties, more property loss, more confusing and chaotic circumstances, and more difficulty in bridging divides."
China, according to Zhang, is extremely concerned about recent developments in Ukraine. He remarked that it has now reached a point that China does not want to see.
The ambassador stated that China always forms its own viewpoint based on the merits of the issue at hand, and that China believes that all nations' sovereignty and territorial integrity should be maintained, as well as that the UN Charter's goals and principles should be jointly upheld.
"We have consistently urged all sides to seek reasonable solutions to their differences through peaceful means based on equality and mutual respect. We support the Russian Federation and Ukraine in settling the matter through discussions, and we welcome and promote all diplomatic efforts "Zhang stated.
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