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Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Laos, Mali, Nicaragua, North Korea, St. Vincent, Syria, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
China’s deputy UN ambassador Dai Bing told the assembly: “We support Russia and Ukraine in moving towards each other, resuming direct dialogue as soon as possible, bringing their legitimate concerns into the negotiation, setting out feasible options, and giving a chance to an early end of the crisis and the rebuilding of peace. The international community should make joint efforts to facilitate peace talks.”China’s top diplomat Wang Yi was just in Moscow where he brought the outlines of a peace plan to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who has become increasingly hawkish on Russia, told reporters the aggressor and the victim can’t be put on equal terms, and Ukraine cannot be asked not to defend itself.
“Russia has not sent any positive signal of any minimum willingness to work for a peace,” Borrell said. In the last week Borrell has been calling loudly for the West to send Ukraine more and more offensive weapons.
2.14 Germany to crack down on sanctions dodgers as non- EU trade turnovers with Russia soar
Germany's Deputy Chancellor, Robert Habeck, announced that Berlin will crack down on EU companies that dodge Western sanctions on Russia, as governments become increasingly alarmed at the scale of the sanctions leakage, the Financial Times reported on February 24.
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