“Don’t Parrot Propaganda”: Ukraine On Chinese Envoy’s Sovereignty Remarks

Kyiv: Ukraine on Sunday condemned what it called “absurd” remarks from China`s ambassador to France, who wondered the sovereignty of post-Soviet nations.

Speaking Friday at the LCI information channel, ambassador Lu Shaye advised nations that emerged after the autumn of the Soviet Union “do not have powerful popularity below worldwide regulation due to the fact there isn’t an worldwide settlement confirming their popularity as sovereign countries.”

The remarks solid doubt now no longer simply on Ukraine, which Russia invaded remaining February, however all former Soviet republics which emerged as unbiased countries after the autumn of the Soviet Union in 1991, which include many participants of the European Union.

Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhaylo Podolyak answered on Sunday that the popularity of post-Soviet nations changed into “enshrined in worldwide regulation”.

“It is abnormal to pay attention an absurd model of the ‘records of Crimea’ from a consultant of a rustic this is scrupulous approximately its thousand-12 months records,” Podolyak stated, relating to China.

Moscow and Beijing have during the last years ramped up cooperation, and Washington has accused Beijing of mulling fingers exports to Moscow — claims China denied.

Despite robust ties with Russia, China has sought to painting itself as a impartial birthday birthday celebration withinside the Ukraine conflict.

It proposed a indistinct political technique to the conflict.

“If you need to be a main political player, do now no longer parrot the propaganda of Russian outsiders…,” Podolyak stated.

‘Consternation’

A announcement issued past due Saturday with the aid of using the French overseas ministry stated it had “found out with consternation approximately the statements from the ambassador”.

“It stays as much as China to mention whether or not those statements replicate its role which we are hoping now no longer to be the case,” the announcement added.

“Remarks with the aid of using the Chinese Ambassador in France regarding worldwide regulation and sovereignty of countries are absolutely unacceptable,” Latvia’s overseas minister Edgars Rinkevics wrote on Twitter.

“We assume clarification from the Chinese facet and whole retraction of this announcement.”

‘Don’t consider China’

His Lithuanian counterpart, Gabrielius Landsbergis, added: “If everybody remains thinking why the Baltic States do not consider China to ‘broking peace in Ukraine’, here is a Chinese ambassador arguing that Crimea is Russian and our nations’ borders don’t have any felony basis.”

Asked if Crimea changed into Ukrainian in the course of his interview on LCI, Lu answered, “it relies upon on the way you examine the problem. There’s records. Crimea changed into Russian on the start.”

The timing of the talk is embarrassing for French President Emmanuel Macron who visited Beijing this month to inspire Chinese President Xi Jinping to place strain on Russian chief Vladimir Putin to stop his invasion of Ukraine.

Macron’s experience brought on unease amongst a few Western allies who’re sceptical of China’s intentions, given Xi’s formal alliance with fellow authoritarian Putin.

Countries that emerged from the cut up of the Soviet Union in 1991 had been later admitted as sovereign participants of the United Nations.