The Chinese Executive has urged this Wednesday the United States and Iran to respect the provisions of the memorandum of understanding signed in June and to address their discrepancies "through dialogue", after a new exchange of attacks in the last few hours despite the ceasefire agreed in April and the ongoing talks to close a definitive agreement to end the conflict in the Middle East.
"China urges both the United States and Iran to implement the memorandum of understanding they have already signed, resolve problems through dialogue and negotiations, and avoid resorting to force," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning, during a press conference in Beijing.
The Foreign Ministry representative stressed that the Asian country "is closely following the latest developments in the Middle East", further emphasizing that "a new escalation of hostilities benefits no one". "Military means cannot resolve fundamental differences," the spokeswoman for Chinese diplomacy concluded.
Iran, for its part, has accused the United States of committing "a serious violation" of the memorandum of understanding with its recent bombings and has maintained that these actions, added to Israel's air attacks on Lebanon and Washington's decision to revoke authorization for Iranian crude oil sales, render "ineffective" several clauses of the agreement, conceived to facilitate the end of the war in the Middle East.
The US Administration has defended its bombings as a response to attacks against several ships in the Strait of Hormuz, an area where Tehran claims that navigation should be coordinated with Iranian authorities in light of the conflict arising from the offensive launched on February 28 by the United States and Israel and until a definitive peace pact is closed.
In reaction to these attacks, Iran's Revolutionary Guard has claimed to have "destroyed" 85 US military installations located in Bahrain and Kuwait, in addition to having shot down an "enemy" MQ-9 drone, as part of its military response to the bombings, which represent a new episode of tension after the fragile ceasefire signed on April 8.