JAKARTA - China on Friday said it was "happy" to see the continuation of communications between Russia and the United States regarding the war in Ukraine, which has been going on for more than three years.
Beijing "supports all efforts conducive to a peaceful settlement of the crisis," Foreign Ministry spokesman Chia Lin Jian told a news conference in Beijing, cited from Anadolu, October 17.
Lin responded to questions about US President Donald Trump's plans to meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Hungary in the next two weeks.
China "lits to see Russia and the US stay in touch, improve their relationship, and advance the political settlement of the Ukraine crisis," added Lin.
Earlier, President Trump said on Thursday that Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will meet next week to determine the time and place of the presidential meeting.
The two meetings were discussed publicly after President Trump and President Putin made a bilateral phone call on Thursday.
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"Maybe it was planned. They have spoken," President Trump told reporters in the Oval Room, referring to his expected meeting with President Putin.
The plan is that President Trump's meeting with President Putin will be held in the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
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