Yang JiechiBEIJING, Mar 15The head of the office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, a member of the party's Politburo, Yang Jiechi, in talks with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, stated the need to study the initial causes of the situation in Ukraine and take into account the concerns of both sides of the negotiations between Kiev and Moscow, reports Xinhua News Agency. «Yang also said that it is important to clarify the historical context of the Ukrainian issue, get to the bottom of the origin of the problem and respond to the legitimate concerns of all parties,» the agency said. Yang Jiechi also called on the international community to jointly support the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine during the meeting. to achieve a significant result on them and support the earliest possible de-escalation. In addition, he called for the creation of a «balanced, effective and sustainable» mechanism for ensuring security in Europe. In Rome, the American delegation led by Sullivan held talks on Monday with representatives of the PRC, which were headed by a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, head of the Office of the Commission of the CPC Central Committee Foreign Affairs Minister Yang Jiechi. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia emphasized.
