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Nato warns China over role as ‘decisive enabler’ helping Russia in Ukraine war
- Unprecedented and blunt joint declaration from security alliance at Washington summit calls on Beijing to uphold UN purposes and principles
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Nato warns China over role as ‘decisive enabler’ helping Russia in Ukraine war
Nato warns China over role as ‘decisive enabler’ helping Russia in Ukraine war
Khushboo Razdanin Washington
In a first, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has issued a direct warning to China over its alleged assistance to Russia in the war against Ukraine.
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The blunt joint declaration by the 32-member security alliance on Wednesday squarely blamed Beijing for fuelling Moscow’s aggression against Kyiv, calling the world’s second-largest economy a “decisive enabler” of the Kremlin’s “war effort”.
“We call on the PRC, as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council with a particular responsibility to uphold the purposes and principles of the UN charter, to cease all material and political support to Russia’s war effort,” it read.
The statement, which followed an annual meeting of the alliance’s head of states, said China “cannot enable the largest war in Europe in recent history without this negatively impacting its interests and reputation”.
Jens Stoltenberg, Nato’s secretary general, described the language as the “strongest message Nato allies have ever sent on China’s contributions to Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine”.
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