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China's Xi Jinping holds 'long and meaningful' call with Zelensky

Amid Russia’s ongoing conflict with Ukraine, Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the phone. “I had a long and meaningful phone call with President Xi Jinping,” Zelensky said on Twitter. Xi Jinping and Volodymyr Zelensky had “an almost one hour-long telephone conversation,” said Zelensky’s spokesman Sergiy Nykyforov on Facebook. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported that during the call Xi told Zelensky “talks and negotiation” were the “only way out” of the war. “On the issue of the Ukraine crisis, China has always stood on the side of peace and its core position is to promote peace talks,” CCTV reported Xi as saying.

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