RFI
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday urged “maximum restraint” over Ukraine, calling the crisis “deeply worrying” in a video summit with his French and German counterparts Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz.
According to a brief press release from the Elysée, Macron, Scholz and Xi, who talked via a three-way video screen, discussed “the dramatic consequences of Russian aggression in Ukraine, in particular the growing number of civilian victims and refugees.”
The equally short German account said that the three leaders “agreed to fully support all negotiations aimed at a diplomatic solution to the conflict” and called for “access to the contested areas,” while “functioning humanitarian corridors must be created.”
According to the more extensive Chinese account of the meeting, Xi, who called the situation “worrisome” says he was “deeply grieved by the outbreak of war again on the European continent…
