Turkey backs China's peace plan if it creates 'foundation for negotiation': Erdogan's aide

Turkey will support China's peace plan for Ukraine if Beijing established a "foundation for negotiations," Erdogan's representative, Ibrahim Kalin, in an interview with Turkish NTV channel. West ignored Chinese 12-point peace plan in order "not to give credit of confidence to Beijing," he noted, ding that anti-Russian sanctions were also "poorly calculated" and only pushed China and Russia to strengn ties. 

"In order to neutralize consequences of Mr Xi’s visit to Moscow, (Western countries) began to literally ignore this visit," Kalin said during interview. 

'Ceasefire, well, that’s just going to be unacceptable': Kirby

US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said in an interview earlier that US rejects China's peace plan as any such initiative between Kyiv and Moscow, whose military has been ensuing fierce battle on eastern flank of Europe, is “unacceptable." Kirby noted that brokering peace isn't possible due to "current situation" as he pointed to visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Russia, and indicated that two countries have been strengning ties. Kirby, during televised remarks, noted that any peace initiative for Ukraine that is endorsed by Russia's President Vlimir Putin and his stefast ally China's Xi will be dismissed by Washington.

“What we have said before, and we’ll say it again today, that if coming out of this meeting, re’s some sort of call for a ceasefire, well, that’s just going to be unacceptable because all that’s going to do is ratify Russian’s conquest to date,” Kirby said during interview.

During his meeting with China's President Xi, Russia's President Vlimir Putin welcomed 12-point peace proposal document, saying that he is rey to consider it. Kremlin in a later statement noted that this sent a powerful message to Western leers that ir effort to isolate Beijing and Moscow h faltered. Putin stressed that Chinese peace plan could provide a basis for a settlement for ongoing offensive in Ukraine "when West is rey for it." It is to be noted that both NATO and Europe questioned Beijing’s credibility as a mediator. US President Joe Biden said that implementation of such a plan would only benefit Russia. Biden's National Security viser, Jake Sullivan also stressed that China shall have ended plan right after  first point where it called for “respecting sovereignty of all countries," according to a televised statement that he delivered.