Ukraine’s Deputy Foreign Minister Iryna Borovec said on Thursday that India must play a “vital role” in finding a peaceful solution to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.
“India has an important role to play,” Borots told ANI. First, India is a global leader and certainly a strong voice for the countries of the Global South. India respects our territorial integrity. In this sense, we fully support them. But India could be more vocal, could take more steps to find a peaceful solution.”
#WATCH | Delhi | Iryna Borovets, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine says, “…India respects the territorial integrity of my country. So in that sense, we have full support. India could be more vocal on this. India can take more action towards finding a peaceful solution. We have… pic.twitter.com/JkC6nFgGYm
— ANI (@ANI) February 22, 2024
She also said that Ukraine has invited India to the World Peace Summit to be held in March in Switzerland.
Borovec added that India must be part of the solution to find peace. “We have invited the Indian government to attend the global peace summit in Switzerland in March. We are very much expecting a representative of India there,” she added.
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Earlier, on the sidelines of last year’s SCO summit in Uzbekistan, Prime Minister Modi had told Russian President Putin that this was not an “era of war”.
The statement was even made for the G20 communique under India’s chairmanship.
Earlier on February 15, Prime Minister Modi and Russian leader Vladimir Putin discussed the ongoing war in Ukraine.
At the time, EAM said they discussed the international situation and current issues and exchanged views on the Indo-Pacific, the conflict in Ukraine, the situation in Gaza, Afghanistan and Central Asia, BRICS, the SCO, the G20 and the United Nations.
