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Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Tuesday that his country feared the consequences of the conflict in Ukraine. for food and energy securitycalling for negotiations to reach a solution.
“We fear the implications for food and energy security. India advocates a return to dialogue and diplomacyJaishankar said of the conflict in Ukraine during a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov after their meeting in Moscow.
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Jaishankar recalled the words of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sarmarkand, Uzbekistan.
“No time for wars“, recalled the Indian minister, also stressing that “the conflict has consequences for the whole world.”
“The conflict in Ukraine dominated our conversations. We will continue to deal with this issue in the future.“, Disse Jaishankar.
Sergei Lavrov said that Russia “highly appreciates” New Delhi’s position on “the situation in Ukraine and around it.”
“We discussed, of course, the situation created by the attempts of our Western colleagues to strengthen, under the guise of Ukrainian events, its dominant role in world affairs and prevent the democratization of international relations,” the head of Russian diplomacy said.
At the bilateral level, the ministers noted the good state of relations between Moscow and New Delhi.
“Russia is a reliable partner for us, which has been tested by time,” Jaishankar said, recalling that the large delegation that accompanied him to Moscow is proof of the high level of relations between the two countries.
Lavrov stressed that in his conversations with his Indian counterpart, the prospects for cooperation in the military sphere, “including the joint production of modern weapons,” were studied.
