BEIJING — China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Iranian counterpart on a call that Beijing supports Tehran defending itself against US-Israeli strikes, as war spreads across the Middle East.
Wang told Abbas Araghchi that Beijing “cherishes the traditional friendship between China and Iran, supports Iran in defending its sovereignty, security, territorial integrity, and national dignity, and supports Iran in protecting its legitimate rights and interests,” state broadcaster CCTV reports.
China “urged the US and Israel to immediately cease military operations, avoid further escalation of tensions and prevent the conflict from spreading to the entire Middle East region,” Wang says, according to CCTV.
In a separate phone call with Oman’s foreign minister, Wang accuses the United States and Israel of “violating the purposes and principles of the UN charter” by “deliberately instigating a war against Iran.”
“China is also willing to play a constructive role, including upholding justice, striving for peace, and stopping the war through the platform of the UN Security Council,” Wang told Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi, CCTV reports.
And in another call with France’s Jean-Noel Barrot, Wang warns that the world risked “regression to the law of the jungle.”
“Major powers cannot arbitrarily attack other countries based on their military superiority,” Wang says, according to CCTV.
“The Iranian nuclear issue must ultimately return to the track of political and diplomatic settlement,” he says.
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