BRUSSELS, March 24. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the French President, Emmanuel Macron, will travel together to China in early April, a week after the visit to Beijing by the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, as reported this Friday. the spokesman for the Community Executive, Eric Mamer.
Despite the fact that the trip does not have a closed agenda, diplomatic sources pointed out that Macron would begin his trip to Beijing on April 4. This announcement comes amid the carousel of international leaders who will pass through China in the coming weeks, just after Chinese President Xi Jinping’s meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Moscow.
This intense international agenda in Beijing coincides with an international context marked by Russian aggression and after Xi presented his peace proposal for Ukraine to his Russian counterpart during a several-day visit to the Russian capital.
The Chinese president will first receive his Brazilian counterpart, Lula da Silva, who has proposed an alliance of countries to mediate between kyiv and Moscow. Days later it will be the turn of Pedro Sánchez, the first European leader to arrive in China after Xi’s trip to Russia, on a visit on March 30 and 31.
