“We must create a favorable international environment to combat the epidemic.
All conflicting parties should actively support the initiative of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on a global ceasefire, "RIA Novosti quoted Wang Yi as saying.
He also stressed the need to heed the call of the international community to "lift all types of unilateral sanctions and other unilateral measures of restraint."
Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that the conduct of unilateral sanctions in a pandemic is comparable to emergency disasters.
In addition, Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, noted that the unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States and the EU pose a serious threat to international peace and security.