- Title: China hopes all parties engage in negotiation for Ukraine ceasefire
- Date: 14th March 2025
- Summary: BEIJING, CHINA (MARCH 14, 2025) (REUTERS) CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESPERSON, MAO NING, ARRIVING FOR NEWS CONFERENCE JOURNALISTS SEATED (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESPERSON, MAO NING, SAYING: "We have taken note of the relevant reports. Regarding the Ukraine crisis, China has consistently upheld the four principles proposed by President Xi Jinpin
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- Keywords: China Russia Trump U.S. Ukraine crisis foreign ministry
- Location: BEIJING, CHINA
- City: BEIJING, CHINA
- Country: China
- Topics: Asia / Pacific,Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics
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- Story Text: China hopes that all parties will engage in dialogue and negotiations to reach a fair, lasting, and binding peace agreement on the Ukraine crisis, Chinese foreign ministry said on Friday (Match 14) responding to Russian president Vladimir Putin's suggestions on the U.S. ceasefire idea for Ukraine.
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia supported a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine in principle, but that fighting could not be paused until a number of crucial conditions were worked out or clarified.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has left hundreds of thousands of dead and injured, displaced millions of people, reduced towns to rubble and triggered the sharpest confrontation for decades between Moscow and the West.
Putin's heavily qualified support for the U.S. ceasefire proposal looked designed to signal goodwill to Washington and open the door to further talks with U.S. President Donald Trump.
But Putin said any agreement must address what Moscow sees as the root causes of the conflict, a major caveat that suggests any ceasefire will take longer than Trump wants.
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