The head of the office of the Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Foreign Affairs at the same time recalled that Beijing does not give weapons to a country that is at warBRUSSELS, February 21.
/tass/. Wang Yi, the head of the office of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee Commission on Foreign Affairs, asked Josep Borrel, the head of EU diplomacy, during an informal conversation in Munich, why his country should not supply weapons to Russia if the EU supplies Ukraine with them. Borrel said this on Tuesday at a press conference in NATO.
"I must admit that we have long had good relations with State Councilor Wang Yi - even when I was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, and he headed the Chinese Foreign Ministry. We had a frank conversation in Munich. He was very clear, I cannot repeat his words, but he said that China does not give weapons to a country that is at war. He said that they don't give Russia weapons and they won't. This is what he told me, emphasizing that this is the principle of China's foreign policy," the head of EU diplomacy said.
According to Borrel, Wang Yi asked him why he was concerned about the issue of arms supplies to Russia if the EU was sending weapons to Ukraine. "By the way, he asked: "Why do you worry that I can give weapons to Russia if you give weapons to Ukraine?" I had to explain to him the big difference, tell him what threat the war in Ukraine poses to us," the head of EU diplomacy added.
Earlier, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that China was allegedly considering providing military assistance to Russia.
