Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Iryna Borovets on Thursday stated that India has to play a “essential position” find a peaceable answer to the continued Russia-Ukraine battle.

Speaking to ANI, Borovets stated, “India has an important position. First of all, India is a world chief, it’s actually a strong voice of the Global South international locations. India respects the territorial integrity of my nation. So in that sense, now we have full assist. But, India could possibly be extra vocal on it, might take extra motion in the direction of discovering a peaceable answer.”

She additional stated that Ukraine has invited India to the Global Peace Summit in Switzerland in March.

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Borovets added that India must be part of the peace-finding answer. “We have invited the Indian authorities to be current on the Global Peace Summit in Switzerland in March. We very a lot count on a consultant of India there,” she added.

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Earlier, on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Uzbekistan final yr, PM Modi had informed Russian President Putin that this now is just not the “era of war“.

The assertion was even made to the G20 communique underneath the presidency of India.

Earlier on February 15, PM Modi and Russian chief Vladimir Putin held talks on the continued Ukraine struggle.

“Had a superb dialog with President Putin. We mentioned varied optimistic developments in our Special & Privileged Strategic Partnership and agreed to chalk out a roadmap for future initiatives. We additionally had a helpful change of views on varied regional and world points, together with Russia’s Presidency of the BRICS,” Modi tweeted.

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Earlier this month, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar visited Russia and held a “wide-ranging and useful” assembly together with his counterpart Sergey Lavrov.

The EAM had stated on the time that they mentioned the worldwide state of affairs and up to date points and exchanged views on the Indo-Pacific, the Ukraine battle, the Gaza state of affairs, Afghanistan and Central Asia, BRICS, SCO, G20 and the UN.

(With inputs from companies)