India ready to contribute to peace I process: Modi on Ukraine conflict
PM Hold Talks with German Chancellor
- New Delhi: India has been pressing for resolving the Ukraine "dispute" through dialogue and diplomacy and it stands ready to contribute to any peace process. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday after holding talks with visiting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who stressed the need for a "clear stand" by countries in the UN on the crisis.
- The one-year-old conflict and its consequences including on food and energy security figured during the talks between the leaders besides ways to ramp up over- all bilateral engagement, in- clouding in areas of trade and co-development of defiance platforms, with Scholz assuring his "personal" involvement in the finalization of India-EU free trade pact.
- In his statement at a joint media event with Modi, the German Chancellor described the Russian "aggression" against Ukraine as a "major catastrophe" that has negatively impacted the globe and said it is important for the countries to state "very clearly where we stand" on the war at the UN as international law governs ions.
- On his part, Modi said- "since the beginning of the developments in Ukraine, India has insisted on resolving this dispute through dialogue and diplomacy. India is ready to contribute to any peace process."
- Referring to the destruction in Ukraine including to its energy grids and infrastructures as well as the over- all consequences of the Russian invasion and stressed that developing countries were being negatively impacted by energy and food shortages resulting from the war.