Reuters, AFP and Xinhua

La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, November 20, 2024, p. 22

Rio de Janeiro. China and France, as major countries, share common responsibilities in leading the international community to unite in efforts to address global challenges at a time when many changes are taking place on the international landscape, Chinese President Xi Jinping said yesterday. , after a meeting with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron.

The French president called on his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to reason and added that Moscow is becoming a destabilizing powerafter the Russian president modified his country’s nuclear doctrine, which contemplates the possibility of resorting to the use of nuclear weapons, after Ukrainian attacks against Russia with US missiles Atacms (Army Tactical Missile Systems).

Macron added that North Korea’s decision to send troops to fight in Ukraine heightened China’s need to get involved. to avoid nuclear escalationand assured share with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, the will for lasting peace in Ukraine.

For his part, Xi Jinping asserted that relations between both nations have unique strategic importance and global influence, and emphasized that China wants neither a prolongation of the crisis nor an escalation of the conflict, but will continue to play a constructive role in its own way to achieve a ceasefire and an end to the conflict..

Mark Rutte, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), asserted from Brussels that Putin should not get their way, because otherwise we would have an emboldened Russia on our borderswhile Josep Borrell, head of diplomacy of the European Union, condemned the change in Russia’s nuclear doctrine and stated that The fate of the Ukrainians will determine that of the European Union.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni explained that she understands the United States’ decision to approve the use of its long-range weapons against Russia by Ukraine, but ruled out supporting the measure.

The president of Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, declared that the use of missiles Atacms by kyiv against Russian territory increases the risk of nuclear conflictand emphasized that there is no nothing positive in a conflict of this magnitude.

Meanwhile, there were protests in Vienna, Berlin and London in solidarity with Ukraine, one thousand days after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.