Prime Minister of India: I am looking for a peaceful solution to the war during my visit to Ukraine

According to Isna, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for a trip to Poland on Tuesday and is supposed to travel from this country by rail to Ukraine to hold talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday. Have a peaceful resolution of the war in Ukraine.

Earlier, Indian and Ukrainian media reported that the Indian Prime Minister will probably be in Kiev “only for a few hours” due to security reasons. Modi, who has maintained open relations with both Russia and Ukraine, held his last meeting with Zelensky on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit last June in Italy. This meeting took place a few days after Narendra Modi was able to reach the third consecutive term as the Prime Minister of India. During the previous meeting with Zelensky, the Indian Prime Minister encouraged a peaceful resolution of the conflict between Kiev and Moscow through dialogue and diplomacy. New Delhi has had such an approach to the war in Ukraine since the start of the Russian military operation in February 2022.

“As friends and partners, we hope for the early return of peace and stability to the region,” Modi wrote in a message he posted on the X social network on Wednesday. Emphasizing that his visit was made at Zelensky’s invitation, he added: “This trip is supposed to create an opportunity to advance the previous talks with him and to deepen India-Ukraine friendship.”

Narendra Modi is willing to mediate between Moscow and Kiev but is not seeking to mediate an end to the war in Ukraine, Bloomberg reported last week, citing sources familiar with the matter.

In the past months, Ukraine had asked several times for support from India. Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kulba made an official visit to India last March to encourage New Delhi to participate in a June summit on Ukraine peace hosted by Switzerland and mainly with the participation of Kiev’s Western allies without the participation of Moscow. slow While in India, Kulba claimed that New Delhi’s relations with Moscow, unlike the relations between India and Ukraine, “have no future.”

According to Rashatudi, India finally participated in the Ukraine peace summit hosted by Switzerland, but like many other countries, it decided not to sign the final statement of the summit due to Russia’s non-participation in the negotiations.

Despite the pressure from the West to distance itself from Russia, India remains one of Moscow’s most important partners, and while the Ukraine war is ongoing, India has increased its purchases of oil and coal from Russia.

In his new term as Prime Minister, Narendra Modi decided to make his first bilateral visit to Russia. Zelensky strongly criticized Modi’s July meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, prompting New Delhi to summon Ukraine’s ambassador over his remarks. While in Russia, Modi reiterated New Delhi’s call for a peaceful resolution of the war through diplomatic and non-battlefield measures.

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