(Reuters) – Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, said late on Saturday that they had discussed Kyiv’s vision of a path to peace in Ukraine with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Peace talks on ending the Russian war in Ukraine are to start in the coming days […]
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Ukraine’s senior officials discuss Kyiv’s peace vision with China’s foreign minister
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(Reuters) – Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, said late on Saturday that they had discussed Kyiv’s vision of a path to peace in Ukraine with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
Peace talks on ending the Russian war in Ukraine are to start in the coming days between Kyiv and Moscow negotiators and senior officials from U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, but without EU officials.
“We met with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi together with Andriy Yermak to reaffirm mutual respect for territorial integrity,” Sybiha said on X about the meeting that took place on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.
“We discussed the development of bilateral relations and trade. We also shared Ukraine’s vision of the path to a comprehensive, just, and lasting peace.”
On Friday, Wang told the Munich conference that China believes all stakeholders in the Russia-Ukraine conflict should participate in the peace talks, underscoring Europe’s role in them after a flurry of U.S. messaging on how to end the war.
Yermak said in his post on the Telegram messaging app that in addition to talking about Kyiv’s visions of how to achieve a sustainable peace in Ukraine, the development of bilateral relations was also discussed.
(Reporting by Yuliia Dysa and Lidia Kelly; Writing by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)