Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka Yao Wen on Monday said China supports any global initiative if it remains conducive to common development worldwide and avoids division or confrontation.

Yao said any initiative by a country should be “open and inclusive” instead of being exclusive to a particular country or against any country.

The ambassador had a meeting with Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen at latter’s office.

Responding to a question on sanctioned Russian ship heading towards China, the envoy said he saw the media reports and hoped that any sort of sanction would not affect ordinary people and cooperation with any country.

He also said that those were “unilateral sanctions”, and not by the United Nations.

Sanctioned Russian ship Sparta III (Ursa Major) was scheduled to dock at Mongla port in Bangladesh at the end of December last year and unload cargo destined for the Rooppur power plant in Pabna.

But the authorities denied the ship permission to dock at the port after officials got a letter from the US Embassy in Dhaka, saying that the ship was on a list of Russian vessels sanctioned by the US.

Bd-pratidin English/Golam Rosul