Dai Bing, China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, speaks at a Security Council meeting on October 19, 2020 at the United Nations. A Chinese envoy on Wednesday called for great attention to the flow of weapons and ammunition into the conflict region, which could pose proliferation risks, PHOTO CHINA UNITED NATIONS -
According to Dai Bing, China's deputy permanent representative to the UN, a UN disarmament chief Izumi Nakamitsu, said that relevant parties should adopt strict control measures, prevent the proliferation of weapons and ammunition, and avoid creating new instability in a larger region, as well as to the flow of weapons and ammunition into the conflict region. The ambassador told the Security Council on the supplies of armaments to Ukraine that the large flow of weapons and ammunition will cause more civilian casualties, more displaced groups, and a heavier humanitarian toll on innocent civilians.
He said that countries are increasingly sending weapons to the conflict areas and expanding the category and range of weapons used in a proxy war, which will cause tensions, amplify the risk of strategic miscalculation and cause the fighting to escalate and spread further, diminishing the already bleak prospect of ending the conflict.
It is our hope that relevant countries, particularly European countries, will take seriously the significant threat posed by weapons and explosive remnants of war to post-war recovery and reconstruction, as well as regional peace and stability, revisit with a sense of responsibility and in the long-term perspective the complex impact of weapons on the Ukraine crisis and international peace and security, noted Dai.
The envoy said lessons should be drawn from the dire consequences of conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Somalia. The crisis in Ukraine is global and multifaceted in nature, to which there is no purely military solution, said Dai. In the past year, increasing sanctions and upgrading weapons didn't calm the situation, but instead made the situation more acute and issues more complicated, pushing the situation to a more dangerous precipice. Like many other peace loving countries, the envoy said that dialogue and negotiation are the main way to end the conflict and restore peace.
He said that the international community should build synergy to facilitating dialogue and peace, encourage parties to the conflict to return to negotiations at an early date and resolve the crisis through political means.