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BEIJING — China has refused to say if it backs an Arab League call for the U.N. Security Council to create a joint peacekeeping force for Syria, the latest bid to end the violence that has killed more than 5,000 there.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin on Monday refused to directly answer repeated questions on whether it would support the league's call. He says China backs the Arab League's "political mediation efforts."
He reiterated China's stance that it wants to see Syrian authorities and opposition forces solve their disputes through dialogue.
China and Russia upset the United States, Europe and much of the Arab world a little more than a week ago when they vetoed a U.N. resolution that would have pressured Syria's president to step down.
