Emmanuel Macron assures that China is against the war in Ukraine
French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that Chinese President Xi Jinping is against the Russian invasion of Ukrainian soil.
Macron has assured that the Chinese authorities must be the main mediators with Russia to stop the war.
In a press conference, after the summit between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the G7 in Brussels, the French president pointed out that this conversation took place ten days ago, stressing that he will meet with Beijing as many times as necessary. to stop the war.
The French president assures that China, being one of the main allies of Russia, maintains a somewhat neutral position regarding the war, but that it defends the independence and sovereignty of the peoples.
For this reason, it is acceptable to Macron that China cannot openly show support for Russia in the war. In addition, he assures that China is committed to mediating to achieve a resolution to the conflict.
Xi Jinping has supported Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in their call for a ceasefire in Ukraine.
Macron has pointed out that as a member of the United Nations Security Council and a major power, he has no choice but to be a source of mediation to convince Russia to stop the attacks in Ukraine.
The French president insists that China will remain consistent with its position of territorial sovereignty to carry out all diplomatic measures to stop the war.
On the other hand, Macron commented on the drone that crashed this month in the center of Zagreb, assuring that it was necessary to first determine if the origin of the device was Ukrainian or Russian.
During the NATO meetings, the President of France held talks with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey, where Macron stressed that both agreed to be able to work on joint humanitarian operations, especially in Mariupol.
On the military support that Ukraine has received from its allies, Macron pointed out that there are limits because it is a war between two nations, sending war fighters or other military means would be breaking the conflict and the country that provides this type of weaponry would be " co-belligerent”.
Following Renault's suspension of activities in Russia, Macron urged all French companies operating in sanctioned territories to abide by the decisions of the French government.
food crisis
Regarding the companies that have operations in Russia and that are not within the sanctioned sectors, Macron pointed out that there are pressures, but that the final decision, whether to leave Russia or not, is up to the companies.
On the other hand, I am announcing that a very large food crisis is beginning, because countries in the Middle East and Africa depend almost entirely on the production of Russia and Ukraine in order to feed their inhabitants.
Macron pointed out that Russia's decision to go to war has the consequences that countries like Egypt, countries in Africa and the Middle East have food supply shortages.
In addition, he stressed that, apart from short-term shortages, the situation would be even more serious, within a year and a year and a half, if the war were to continue.
In this context, he pointed out that an operation has been launched in conjunction with countries, organizations and private companies to reduce the food crisis. Something similar to the one carried out to make donations of vaccines against COVID-19 to countries with difficulties.
Among the measures, Emmanuel Macron highlighted the release of stored products, the lifting of restrictions to export agricultural raw materials and the temporary increase in the limits of national production of producing countries.