OUR Hispanic Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez moving next week Beijing meet the president Xi Jinpingwith whom he will mainly discuss the Chinese plan to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, one of his ministers said today.

Sanchez’s visit will come three months before Spain takes over as president on July 1 for six months. European Unionemphasized the minister of the presidency, Felix Bolanios, in an interview with public television TVE.

This meeting with the Chinese leader will also give Sanchez an opportunity to explain “our vision for the European Presidency,” Bolaños continued.

The second visit of the EU leader since the beginning of the pandemic

Spain’s socialist Prime Minister will be only the second leader of an EU country. who will move to China after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic three years ago, after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz last November.

Sanchez will travel to Beijing after attending the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) on Hainan Island. This tour of the Spanish Prime Minister to China is scheduled for March 30 and 31, the Spanish government said in a statement.

“China can play a very important role in mediating between Russia and Ukraine, and that will certainly be one of the issues” that Sanchez will raise with the Chinese president, Bolaños said.

“It is important that this conflict ends and that Russia recognizes that this is a completely unjustified attack,” added Felix Bolaños, who is considered Sanchez’s right-hand man.

^{Source: APE-MEB, AFP.}