US president
Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart
Xi Jinping have reiterated their agreement that a nuclear war “should never be fought” in a long-awaited meeting in Bali earlier today, the White House said.''
Joe Biden with Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 leaders’ summit in Bali. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
''The pair shook hands in front of the US and Chinese flags ahead of the three-hour meeting on the resort island and “spoke candidly” about a range of issues, including key regional and global challenges, the White House said in a statement. It said:
President Biden raised Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine and Russia’s irresponsible threats of nuclear use. President Biden and President Xi reiterated their agreement that a nuclear war should never be fought and can never be won and underscored their opposition to the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
The two leaders held their first face-to-face talks since Biden took office on the sidelines of the G20 summit.
The US and China shared the responsibility to show the world that they can “manage our differences, prevent competition from becoming conflict”, Biden said''
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A draft resolution by the UN’s nuclear watchdog, seen by Reuters, calls on Russia to cease all actions against Ukraine’s nuclear facilities including the
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
The draft of what would be the third resolution by the
International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) 35-nation board of governors reads:
(The board) calls upon the Russian Federation to abandon its baseless claims of ownership of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, to immediately withdraw its military and other personnel from the plant, and to cease all actions against, and at, the plant and any other nuclear facility in Ukraine.
The wording of the draft is similar to that of the two previous resolutions passed in March and September. Both resolutions were passed with large majorities, with only
Russia and China opposing them.''
