German Chancellor Olaf Scholz criticized China's proposals for peace in Ukraine, Welt reports..
“From my point of view, there is no clear line in the document that says: Russian troops must withdraw from Ukraine,” the chancellor said during his visit to India on Saturday, commenting on the 12-point “peace plan” document from China published the day before..
Scholz called the condemnation of the use of nuclear weapons extremely correct, about which he had a substantive conversation with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“It is indisputable that there can be no “dictated world in Russian”. Russian President Vladimir Putin must understand this,” he stressed..
China's plan criticized at the meeting of G-20 finance ministers and Christian Lindner. First of all, because the document does not speak of condemning Russia's attack on Ukraine..
" We are all united in this, except perhaps for the ambiguous position of the representative of China,” Lindner said, adding that although China stepped back, Brazil, for example, has a clearer position.
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On the first anniversary of the start of the Russian invasion on Friday, China released a position paper calling for, among other things, a ceasefire and negotiations.
G20 fails to agree on joint final declaration due to dispute over Russian war of conquest.
Instead of a joint declaration, the Indian presidency published its outcome of the ministerial meeting. According to information from negotiating circles, China and Russia prevented agreement on a joint document. The differences were on two points: on the condemnation of the Russian war in Ukraine and on the point of debt relief for poor countries..
The finance ministers also debated whether to include the word " Germany and France insisted on wording adopted by leaders at Bali summit in 2022. There, the G 20 formulated: "