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‘China ready to engage with all parties to ease Myanmar situation’

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Published: 16:20, 7 March 2021   Update: 16:21, 7 March 2021
‘China ready to engage with all parties to ease Myanmar situation’

China is willing to engage with “all parties” to ease the crisis in neighbouring Myanmar and is not taking sides, the Chinese government’s top diplomat, State Councillor Wang Yi, said on Sunday (March 7), reports reuters.

Beijing has said the situation in Myanmar, where the military seized power last month, was “absolutely not what China wants to see” and has dismissed social media rumours of Chinese involvement in the coup as nonsense.

“China is ... willing to contact and communicate with all parties on the basis of respecting Myanmar’s sovereignty and the will of the people, so as to play a constructive role in easing tensions,” Wang told a news conference on the sidelines of China’s annual gathering of parliament.

While Western countries have strongly condemned the Feb. 1 coup, China has been more cautious, emphasising the importance of stability.

China nonetheless agreed to a United Nations Security Council statement that called for the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other detainees and voiced concern over the state of emergency.

“China has long-term friendly exchanges with all parties and factions in Myanmar, including the National League for Democracy (NLD), and friendship with China has always been the consensus of all sectors in Myanmar,” Wang said.

The NLD is Suu Kyi’s party. Its landslide November victory in national elections has been ignored by the junta.

Dhaka/Nasim