London, Oct. 31 (ANI): UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has urged China to play an active role in helping end the violence in Syria after meeting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi for talks in Beijing.
Greeting Yang at the foreign ministry in front of reporters, Brahimi said he hoped "China can play an active role in solving the events in Syria", the Telegraph reports.
According to the paper, China is generally suspicious of intervention in the internal affairs of other nations, and has exercised its veto in the UN Security Council along with Russia to block resolutions aimed at putting more pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Meeting him on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York last month, Yang reaffirmed this stance, saying that "political dialogue is the only correct way to tackle this issue".
Yang thanked Brahimi for his work and said he hoped their discussions, their third in two months, would promote "mutual understanding" and "the appropriate handling of the Syrian issue".
Analysts say China's hesitance to back further action in Syria may stem from its discomfort with Western-led military intervention after last year's uprising in Libya, which eventually led to the fall of leader Muammar Gaddafi, the paper said.
China opposed military action in Libya but did not veto a March 2011 Security Council resolution authorising the operation, yet believes the West misinterpreted the resolution and went too far, it added. (ANI)
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