PM Narendra Modi invited President Volodymyr Zelensky to go to India
New Delhi:
The worldwide media has lined Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to Ukraine and his assembly with President Volodymyr Zelensky as a constructive step. PM Modi is the primary Indian Prime Minister to go to Ukraine since its independence in 1991.
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The New York Instances: “Mr Modi has rigorously calibrated his nation’s relations with the 2 warring nations. On a visit to Moscow final month, Mr Modi hugged President Putin, and India has remained an vital buying and selling accomplice with Russia. India despatched a consultant to a Ukrainian-organised peace summit in June that Kyiv hoped would win backing for its negotiating positions in potential talks. However India didn’t be a part of the nations that signed a communique on the finish of the summit supporting three factors of the Ukrainian plan.”
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BBC: “India had by no means been impartial within the warfare, he [PM Modi] insisted. ‘Proper from the primary day our aspect was peace,’ Mr Modi argued, stating that he got here from the land of Mahatma Gandhi, whose statue in Kyiv he visited earlier. However behind the language, the very fact stays that India has by no means condemned Russia’s full scale invasion and, in impact, has been serving to to energy Moscow’s warfare economic system with Delhi overtaking Beijing final month as the most important importer of Russian oil – at a time it has been hit by Western sanctions.’
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The Guardian: “The journey is the primary to Ukraine by an Indian chief because the nation’s 1991 independence from the Soviet Union. It follows a interval of strained relations. Zelenskiy criticised Modi’s latest journey to Moscow, which got here on the identical day Russian missiles flattened a kids’s hospital in Kyiv.”
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Nikkei Asia: “Regardless of Western strain, India has not explicitly condemned conventional ally and weapons provider Russia for invading Ukraine. As a substitute, it has repeatedly referred to as for resolving the battle by means of dialogue and diplomacy. On the similar time, the South Asian nation has been doing brisk enterprise with Moscow, notably by means of shopping for discounted Russian oil.”
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Le Monde: “Zelensky referred to as Modi’s go to a ‘historic second.’ However neither aspect confirmed indicators of a breakthrough, with Indian International Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar later saying that it was ‘clearly a fancy problem’ and that India believes Moscow needs to be concerned if peace efforts have been to progress.”
