BEIJING, 11 March 2022, (TON): The meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation and Ukraine Sergey Lavrov and Dmitry Kuleba in Turkey was another positive step towards peace.

This was stated by Foreign Minister Wang Yi, a member of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, during a video conference meeting with his Italian counterpart Luigi Di Maio.

He said in a message from the Chinese Foreign Ministry “the foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine are meeting today. The parties are striving for contacts and negotiations at an even higher level this is a positive step towards peace.”

As Wang Yi pointed out, the international community should encourage Russia and Ukraine to stick firmly to the mainstream of the negotiations and make unremitting efforts to achieve peace.

According to him “negotiations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine are the only way to a ceasefire.

He said in a document on the website of the Chinese Foreign Ministry “Russia and Ukraine have held three rounds of negotiations. Despite the fact that there are still large differences in the positions of the two sides, negotiations are the only feasible way to cease fire and stop hostilities.”