Sébastien Le Belzic, edited by Alexandre Dalifard 2:47 p.m., February 26, 2023
Emmanuel Macron will go to China in early April.
The president on Saturday called on Beijing to help pressure Russia to end the war in Ukraine.
He praised Beijing's efforts as an intense diplomatic ballet begins with China, which wishes to promote its peace plan unveiled last Friday.
Beijing begins to mediate in the conflict in Ukraine while refusing to condemn the Russian invasion.
China will receive Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Moscow's only European ally, this week.
She will then receive Emmanuel Macron in early April, as announced by the French president who welcomed Beijing's involvement during his visit to the Salon de l'Agriculture on Saturday.
China presented a 12-point document on Friday in which it urges the two belligerents to dialogue.
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"Maintaining the safety of nuclear power plants"
"The most urgent need is to sit down to negotiate despite the strong contradictions. Besides promoting peace and talks, China has also made proposals on how to defuse and prevent strategic risks and maintain security. nuclear power plants," said Ding Xiaoxing, director of the China Institute of International Relations.
If Western countries have generally welcomed this Chinese diplomatic intervention with skepticism, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he is ready to "work" with Beijing and announces his intention to meet his counterpart Xi Jinping.
The Chinese president also plans to visit Moscow soon.