Presiden Macron to visit China after Beijing's Ukraine peace plan
French President Emmanuel Macron has said he will visit China in April to seek the Chinese President Xi Jinping help with ending Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The announcement on Saturday came after China published a 12-point position paper that called for a ceasefire and a 'political settlement' to end the year-long conflict.
President Macron, speaking on the sidelines of an agricultural show in Paris, said he would visit China in early April.
'The fact that China is engaging in peace efforts is a good thing,' the French President said, stressing that peace was only possible if 'Russian aggression was halted, troops withdrawn, and the territorial sovereignty of Ukraine and its people was respected'.
China must help us put pressure on Russia so that it never uses chemical or nuclear weapons- and that it stops its aggression as a precondition for talks,' Macron added.
China has sought to position itself as a neutral party on the conflict, even as it has maintained close relation with Russia and helped scuttle a joint statement condemning the war at a G20 gathering in India.
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