NEW DELHI: India has been engaging both Russia and Ukraine to see if there is something it can do that would hasten the end of the conflict and initiate serious negotiation between them, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. The remarks followed PM Modi 's third meeting in the past four months with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday.
"We believe that wars are not the way of settling disputes. We don't believe that a solution is going to come from the battlefield," Jaishankar said during an interaction at an event, titled 'India, Asia and the World', hosted by the Asia Society and the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York on Tuesday.
"We think at some point there will be a negotiation, and such a negotiation has to obviously include the parties. It cannot be a one-sided negotiation. And, from those assessments, we have been engaging both the Russian government and the Ukrainian government in Moscow and in Kyiv and in other places to see whether there is something we can do which would hasten the end of the conflict and initiate some kind of serious negotiation between them," he added, when asked what India was doing to resolve the conflict.
Jaishankar said this is a kind of exploration that India has been doing. "It's not that we have a peace plan. We are not suggesting anything. We are having these conversations and sharing these conversations with the other side. My sense is both sides appreciate it," he said.
He pointed out the several engagements that the Indian leadership has had with Moscow and Kyiv in recent months. Politico also quoted a high-ranking Ukrainian official as saying on Wednesday that India was Kyiv's big hope to reach a peace pact it can live with.
According to the official quoted in the report, Modi was clear in summertime discussions with Kyiv that - while Ukraine would inevitably need to compromise on some things to end Moscow's onslaught - any proposals to end the war should not include giving up territory to Russia.
"We believe that wars are not the way of settling disputes. We don't believe that a solution is going to come from the battlefield," Jaishankar said during an interaction at an event, titled 'India, Asia and the World', hosted by the Asia Society and the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York on Tuesday.
"We think at some point there will be a negotiation, and such a negotiation has to obviously include the parties. It cannot be a one-sided negotiation. And, from those assessments, we have been engaging both the Russian government and the Ukrainian government in Moscow and in Kyiv and in other places to see whether there is something we can do which would hasten the end of the conflict and initiate some kind of serious negotiation between them," he added, when asked what India was doing to resolve the conflict.
Jaishankar said this is a kind of exploration that India has been doing. "It's not that we have a peace plan. We are not suggesting anything. We are having these conversations and sharing these conversations with the other side. My sense is both sides appreciate it," he said.
He pointed out the several engagements that the Indian leadership has had with Moscow and Kyiv in recent months. Politico also quoted a high-ranking Ukrainian official as saying on Wednesday that India was Kyiv's big hope to reach a peace pact it can live with.
According to the official quoted in the report, Modi was clear in summertime discussions with Kyiv that - while Ukraine would inevitably need to compromise on some things to end Moscow's onslaught - any proposals to end the war should not include giving up territory to Russia.
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