Tokyo [Japan], May 20 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for bilateral talks on the sidelines of the G7 summit within the Japanese metropolis of Hiroshima.
This is the primary time the 2 leaders are assembly in individual for the reason that starting of the Russian-Ukraine battle in February final 12 months. PM Modi has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin in addition to President Zelenskyy quite a lot of instances.
The Prime Minister’s Office shared pictures of the assembly wherein India’s nationwide safety advisor Ajit Doval was additionally current.
The Ukrainian president who arrived in Hiroshima in the present day is attending the summit on an invite by Japan, the present chair of the Group of Seven international locations.
New Delhi has sought a diplomatic answer to the battle whereas PM Modi, in feedback seen as mildly vital of Russian President Vladimir Putin, informed him in September that the present period was “not an era of war.”Prime Minister Modi’s enchantment to President Putin for a “cessation of violence” and for all sides to return to the dialogue desk was definitely a notch up from India’s earlier explicitly impartial stance, and carried a touch of the compulsions to get off the fence, although nonetheless largely sustaining a stability.
PM Modi’s cellphone dialog with Russian President Vladimir Putin underlined that Delhi will for now follow a path of strategic ambivalence on the Ukraine disaster. This is a practical selection, one which displays the complexities of a realist world and Delhi’s personal positions on territorial integrity and sovereignty, its personal issues about its unresolved borders, it is a tough relationship with its two northern neighbours.
In a cellphone dialog with President Zelenskyy on October 4 final 12 months, PM Modi stated there could be “no military solution” and that India is able to contribute to any peace efforts.
India has maintained that the disaster should be resolved by means of diplomacy and dialogue.
PM Modi is in Japan to attend the Group of Seven (G7) summit on the invitation of his Japanese counterpart, Fumio Kishida.
PM Modi shall be in Hiroshima for the G7 summit from May 19 to May 21. He is predicted to talk on world challenges, together with meals, fertiliser and vitality safety.
Live footage on Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK, confirmed Zelenskyy stepping off a French aircraft at an airport in Hiroshima. A pink carpet was rolled out minutes earlier than his arrival, and he was instantly whisked away in a black sedan, in accordance with the New York Times.
“Important meetings with partners and friends of Ukraine. Security and enhanced cooperation for our victory. Peace will become closer today,” Zelenskyy tweeted on arrival in Japan.
The Ukrainian chief, who made a shock go to to an Arab League summit in Saudi Arabia on Friday, is trying to rally the worldwide neighborhood to extend sanctions on Russia and pledge additional assist for Ukraine, in accordance with a report in Al Jazeera.
Zelenskyy’s go to comes a day after US President Biden knowledgeable the G7 leaders in Hiroshima that the US would assist the joint allied coaching of Ukrainian pilots on fourth-generation fighter jets, together with the F-16. Once the coaching will get underway, it could be determined when and what number of plane could be delivered and who within the coalition would supply them.
Biden stated he was additionally ready to let different international locations give F-16s to Ukraine, reported The New York Times. (ANI)