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Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Amina Jabbar told Al-Jazeera that Kyiv is conducting a dialogue with China and many countries with the aim of mediating to end the war, and added that countries such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Israel offered to mediate with the end of the tenth day of the Russian war on Ukraine.
The Ukrainian official explained that her country’s diplomacy is looking for different formulas to resolve the conflict and stop the war, adding, “We are in dialogue with many countries, including China, and there are leaders and countries that have declared their readiness to mediate, such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Israel and other partners. This is an ongoing process, and it is under consideration and negotiation.”
Earlier on Saturday, Beijing called for direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, during a call between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his American counterpart Anthony Blinken. “We hope that the fighting will stop at an early date… and that a major humanitarian crisis will be prevented,” Wang told Blinken, acknowledging that the negotiations between the two countries would not be “easy.”
China has taken a cautious diplomatic course since the conflict began, refusing to condemn Moscow’s actions after last month hailing the “borderless” friendship between the two countries.
In the context of the diplomatic movement, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Saturday after three hours of talks in the Kremlin with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Bennett’s spokesman.
This movement comes ahead of a third round of negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow on Monday, with the aim of ending the war, according to what a member of the Ukrainian delegation David Arachmia announced on Saturday, as the previous two rounds were held in Belarus near the border with Ukraine.