Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday reiterated to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky India’s willingness to facilitate early return to peace during his three-hour meeting with the latter and also urged both parties, Ukraine and Russia, to engage with one another through dialogue and diplomacy as tools to resolve the conflict.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine seeks India’s continued cooperation in the process to restore peace in the region.
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The meeting between PM Modi and Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, the first visit by an Indian leader to the country since its birth, comes at a time when Kyiv has launched an incursion in Russia’s Kursk region while Moscow’s army advances in eastern Ukraine, claiming to have seized a swathe of towns and villages in recent weeks.
Jaishankar said that the incursion was also discussed, along with deaths of children in the conflict. “He (Zelensky) knows we mean well by Ukraine. We are very, very keen that the conflict comes to an end. If there is anything India can do, in any way… It is the objective we are interested in, rather than the process. We are willing to do whatever we can. The continuation of this conflict is terrible for Ukraine and the world,” Jaishankar said while addressing reporters.
The joint statement mentioned the UN Charter and the respect for territorial integrity as enshrined in the charter.
The meeting comes as India tries to emerge as a peacemaker in the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian conflict which has been going on for the last two and half years.
During the meeting, Prime Minister Modi shared ‘many of the thoughts’ that were discussed during the meeting he had with Russian President Vladimir Putin with Zelensky, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said.
Putin and PM Modi met earlier this year in Moscow to hold a bilateral meeting.
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