Chinese
Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun on Monday rejected the
possibility of the country’s participation in a potential peacekeeping
contingent in Ukraine after the end of the conflict.
"I
would like to stress that such media reports are not true. China’s
position on the Ukrainian crisis is consistent and clear," Guo told a
briefing.
Kremlin
spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in late February that Russia had not
discussed the possible involvement of Chinese peacekeepers in the
context of resolving the conflict in Ukraine.
On
Saturday, the German newspaper reported that China was discussing with
European countries the possibility of its participation in a
peacekeeping mission in Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said
on March 6 that Russia sees no possibility for achieving a compromise
on the possible deployment of European peacekeepers in Ukraine.
Media
reports emerged earlier in March that French President Emmanuel Macron
and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer are trying to convince 37 countries
to join of a coalition ready to deploy peacekeepers in Ukraine and
provide security guarantees to Kiev.
The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service said last year that the West could deploy some 100,000 troops in Ukraine under the guise of a peacekeeping force to restore Kiev's combat capabilities.
Peskov has
argued that in any conflict the deployment of foreign peacekeepers is
only possible with the consent of all parties to the conflict.
