The Kremlin cannot confirm the Financial Times (FT) report that Chinese President Xi Jinping personally warned Russian President Vladimir Putin against using nuclear weapons in Ukraine. This was stated by Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov. His words are given in the Telegram channel of the Mayak radio station.
“I cannot confirm this. I can only tell you that following this important visit by President Xi to Moscow, a lot of information was provided, there were statements for the press. The essence of the talks was clearly laid out in the documents adopted following the declaration. Therefore, there is a lot of information. Everything else is fiction,” Peskov said.
FT earlier writing citing Western and Chinese officials that Xi privately tipped off Putin during his official visit to Moscow in March 2023. This was notably confirmed to the newspaper by a former PRC government official.
Western FT sources claimed that the non-use clause, which content in a joint statement by Russia and China following the meeting between Xi Jinping and Putin, “almost certainly” was added at Beijing’s urging.
Part VII of the joint statement between Russia and China reads, among other things, as follows: “The parties reaffirm that there can be no winners in a nuclear war and that it must never be started. The parties call on all signatories of the joint statement (leaders of the five nuclear-weapon States) to follow its key postulates in practice, including the effective reduction of the risk of nuclear war and of any armed conflict between nuclear-weapon States. nuclear weapons.
In November 2022, Xi Jinping spoke out against the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine during a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. as then noted Bloomberg, the Chinese leader’s remarks send Vladimir Putin “a clear signal that nuclear threats are a red line for China”.
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