{"id":31588,"date":"2023-04-27T10:29:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T10:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=31588"},"modified":"2023-04-27T10:29:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T10:29:57","slug":"zelenskyy-and-xi-hold-first-talks-since-russian-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=31588","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy and Xi hold first talks since Russian invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Al Jazeera:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping has spoken to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the first time since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with Beijing saying it wanted to send an envoy to Kyiv to serve as a mediator to pursue a \u201cpolitical settlement\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The phone call on Wednesday lasted nearly an hour and was \u201clong and meaningful\u201d, according to the Ukrainian president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI believe that this call, as well as the appointment of Ukraine\u2019s ambassador to China, will give a powerful impetus to the development of our bilateral relations,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first known wartime phone call between the two leaders comes after Xi and Zelenskyy both said they were willing to speak to each other following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/3\/21\/chinas-xi-says-ties-with-russia-entering-new-era\">Xi\u2019s visit to Moscow<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese state media said Wednesday\u2019s call was made at Zelenskyy\u2019s invitation and that Xi told the Ukrainian president that as a responsible nation, Beijing could not be a \u201cbystander\u201d to the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOn the Ukraine crisis, China always stands on the side of peace and China\u2019s core position is to promote peace via talks,\u201d the Global Times quoted Xi as saying during the call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Chinese foreign ministry statement said an envoy \u2013 a former ambassador to Russia \u2013 would visit Ukraine to seek a \u201cpolitical settlement\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera: Chinese President Xi Jinping has spoken to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the first time since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with Beijing saying it wanted to send an envoy to Kyiv to serve as a mediator to pursue a \u201cpolitical settlement\u201d. The phone call on Wednesday lasted nearly an hour and was \u201clong and meaningful\u201d, according to the Ukrainian president. \u201cI believe that this call, as well as the appointment of Ukraine\u2019s ambassador to China, will give a powerful impetus to the development of our bilateral relations,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote on Twitter. The first known wartime&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31590,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31588\/revisions\/31590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}