Fu Cong, head of the Chinese EU, said that China has not promised to prevent Chinese companies from helping the Russian military to avoid sanctions implemented by the European Union.
The Hong Kong South China Morning Post reported on Saturday (June 17) that Fu Cong made the above statements when he attended a Chinese -Enterprise Business Forum in the Belgian capital Brussels on Friday.Earlier, EU diplomats promised to temporarily eliminate five Chinese enterprises in the sanctions list of the Russian military.
The report quoted EU sources that EU diplomats made diplomatic commitments in Fu Cong to put pressure on Chinese enterprises to assist the Russian military in order to prevent them from being included in the EU's products that are included in the export restriction list.After transferring to the Russian military, it made a decision to impose sanctions on five Chinese enterprises.
However, Fu Cong said in an interview with Nanzao and two other media in Brussels on Friday that "the Chinese government has never promised anything ... this is the bottom line."
FuCong said: "We understand that the European Union's concerns about trying to prevent sanctions means that some of the products in the European market may be exported to Russia, so according to their opinions, this needs to be resolved. We will wait and see in the future."
The EU envoy will meet on Monday (19th). It is expected that the 11th round of sanctions facilities will be implemented by Russia. Among them, Chinese companies that have been affected will be reduced from eight originals to the current three, of which fiveThe family is temporarily eliminated from the sanctions list.
South Earlier Thursday (15th) reported that the three companies retained in the sanctions list are Russian entities operating in China.If Chinese companies continue to sell high -tech products made in Europe by the Russian military, they will be quickly included in the sanctions list.
Two EU diplomats said at the time that this arrangement could be regarded as testing whether Beijing was honest.One of them said on Friday that Fu Cong's latest remarks were "gently, which is surprising."
When talking about five Chinese companies temporarily excluded the sanctions list, Fu Cong said that this is "good news", but he is unwilling to do what Chinese government will take to ensure that Chinese companies will not help the Russian military."We are happy to see that Chinese companies have been eliminated from the sanctions list, which shows that the dialogue is through."
