China will do its utmost when it comes to contributing to Palestinian-Israeli reconciliation, its foreign minister told his Israeli counterpart in a phone call on Monday, according to Chinese state media, Reuters reports.

China will firmly support any resolution as long as it is conducive to peace, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Israel’s Eli Cohen, calling the conflict a “major choice between war and peace”, state media has said.

China calls for the convening of a “more authoritative, wide-ranging and effective international peace conference” soonest to promote the resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, Wang said.

The newspaper said the spokesperson at the Chinese embassy in the US has called for an end to the “groundless hyping” over the deployment of Chinese warships to the Middle East in response to reports about several warships stationed in the region.