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Michael Fitzpatrick

Macron to visit China in early April, calls for Beijing pressure on Moscow

President Emmanuel Macron. © LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP

The French leader Emmanuel Macron on Saturday said he will visit China in early April. The president called on Beijing to help the countries in the western alliance put pressure on Russia to end the war in Ukraine.

Speaking in Paris on the day after China called for urgent peace talks and released Beijing's plan to end the war in Ukraine, Macron said peace was possible only if "the Russian aggression was halted, troops withdrawn and the territorial sovereignty of Ukraine and its people was respected".

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