China warns against providing weapons to Ukraine

TIL Desk/World/United Nations/ A Chinese envoy on Monday warned against constantly providing weapons to Ukraine or imposing sanctions on Russia. The international community should not stop at eliminating sexual violence and human trafficking.  Only through cease-fire and the restoration of peace can the trauma of conflict for women and children be fundamentally avoided, said Dai Bing, China’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations.

“The international community should work together to promote peace talks, and encourage Russia and Ukraine to come back to the negotiation track,” he told a Security Council meeting on sexual violence and human trafficking in the context of the Ukraine conflict. Constantly providing weapons or imposing sanctions and pressure will not solve the problem, but will only perpetuate and expand the conflict, he warned.

People in Ukraine and other developing countries should not pay the price for geopolitical and bloc confrontations. At a time when humans have a shared future and when global security is indivisible, no country can or should seek its own absolute security at the expense of the security of others.  And international and regional security cannot and should not be guaranteed by strengthening military blocs and cutting off supply and industrial chains, said Dai.