{"id":45424,"date":"2026-04-05T23:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=45424"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:26:22","slug":"china-fm-tells-russias-lavrov-willing-to-work-to-de-escalate-mideast-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/china-fm-tells-russias-lavrov-willing-to-work-to-de-escalate-mideast-war\/","title":{"rendered":"China FM tells Russia&#8217;s Lavrov willing to work to &#8216;de-escalate&#8217; Mideast war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>China&#8217;s top diplomat told his Russian counterpart on Sunday that he is willing to work together to &#8220;de-escalate&#8221; the war in the Middle East, Beijing&#8217;s state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Wang Yi told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in a phone call that &#8220;China and Russia should uphold fairness on major issues of principle&#8221;, state news agency Xinhua said, noting that the call came at Lavrov&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n<p>Wang said that &#8220;the situation in the Middle East is still deteriorating and fighting is escalating&#8221;, Xinhua reported.<\/p>\n<p>He also reiterated China&#8217;s call for an &#8220;immediate ceasefire&#8221; to the fighting triggered by US-Israeli strikes against Iran that began on February 28.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China is willing to continue cooperating with Russia in the UN Security Council, communicating promptly on major issues and making efforts to de-escalate the situation and maintain regional peace and stability and global security,&#8221; Xinhua quoted Wang as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing and Moscow are close economic and political partners, and the relationship has deepened further since Russia&#8217;s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s top diplomat told his Russian counterpart on Sunday that he is willing to work together to &#8220;de-escalate&#8221; the war in the Middle East, Beijing&#8217;s state media reported. Wang Yi told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in a phone call that &#8220;China and Russia should uphold fairness on major issues of principle&#8221;, state news agency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45425,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45424\/revisions\/45425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}