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Ukraine tells China it is open to talks if Russia acts in good faith
The Straits Times
|July 25, 2024
Ukraine's top diplomat told Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at talks in the city of Guangzhou on July 24 that Kyiv was open to talks with Russia if Moscow was prepared to negotiate in good faith, something he said he saw no evidence of for now.
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Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba is the highest-ranking Ukrainian official to travel to China since Russia's February 2022 invasion and held talks with Mr Wang Yi for more than three hours, a Ukrainian source in the delegation said.
"Kuleba restated... that (Kyiv) is ready to engage the Russian side in the negotiation process at a certain stage, when Russia is ready to negotiate in good faith, but emphasised that no such readiness is currently observed on the Russian side," the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Russian troops have been inching forward in eastern Ukraine in the 29-month-old invasion ahead of a US election in November that could see the return of Donald Trump to the White House. Trump has threatened to cut vital aid flows to Ukraine.
This story is from the July 25, 2024 edition of The Straits Times.
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