The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, explained to journalists on Friday 24 February that the Chinese twelve-point proposal to resolve the war in Ukraine was not “a peace plan” but a “synthesis document (...) in which China has brought together all its positions expressed since the beginning”.
According to the High Representative, quoted by AFP, to be a peace plan, it had to be “operationalised”. Mr Borrell said there were “interesting considerations on the use of nuclear weapons, prisoner exchanges, grain”.
European External Action Service spokeswoman Nabila Massrali stressed that the document “emphasised certain principles of the UN Charter, but was selective and insufficient in its implications for Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine”.
She added that the plan was based on a misplaced focus on the ‘so-called’ legitimate security interests and concerns of the parties, “implying a justification for Russia’s illegal invasion and blurring the roles of the aggressor and the aggressed”.
The Chinese proposal “does not take into account who is the aggressor and who is the victim”, she lamented.
See the Chinese plan: https://aeur.eu/f/5i3 (Original version in French by Camille-Cerise Gessant)