NEW DELHI: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned the primary Indian PM to go to Poland in additional than 4 a long time, he stated, “For many years, India’s coverage was to keep up distance from all nations. The scenario has now modified … Right this moment, India’s coverage is to keep up shut ties with all nations. Right this moment’s India desires to attach with everybody.”
And setting the tone straight for India’s shifted overseas coverage, PM Modi arrived in Ukraine and met president Volodymyr Zelenskyy with a handshake and a hug.Simply over a month in the past, PM Modi’s hug with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow was criticised by many, together with the US and Zelenskyy himself who known as it a “disappointment and a devastating blow to peace efforts”.
PM Modi, nonetheless, on Friday provided the identical therapy to Zelenskyy with a handshake, a hug and a hand on the shoulder as each the leaders visited a memorial for youngsters killed within the Russia-Ukraine.
“Battle is especially devastating for younger kids. My coronary heart goes out to the households of youngsters who misplaced their lives, and I pray that they discover the energy to endure their grief.,” PM Modi wrote as he shared the photographs on X.
Assam CM and BJP chief Himanta Biswa Sarma quickly put up the photographs of PM Modi hugging each Putin and Zelenskyy and famous that the “two defining pictures seize the distinctive essence of a Bharat First Overseas Coverage.”
“A coverage that permits a resurgent India to train strategic autonomy in an more and more polarised local weather, pursue nationwide pursuits and reaffirm its pole place in world diplomacy!” he wrote.
And setting the tone straight for India’s shifted overseas coverage, PM Modi arrived in Ukraine and met president Volodymyr Zelenskyy with a handshake and a hug.Simply over a month in the past, PM Modi’s hug with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow was criticised by many, together with the US and Zelenskyy himself who known as it a “disappointment and a devastating blow to peace efforts”.
PM Modi, nonetheless, on Friday provided the identical therapy to Zelenskyy with a handshake, a hug and a hand on the shoulder as each the leaders visited a memorial for youngsters killed within the Russia-Ukraine.
“Battle is especially devastating for younger kids. My coronary heart goes out to the households of youngsters who misplaced their lives, and I pray that they discover the energy to endure their grief.,” PM Modi wrote as he shared the photographs on X.
Assam CM and BJP chief Himanta Biswa Sarma quickly put up the photographs of PM Modi hugging each Putin and Zelenskyy and famous that the “two defining pictures seize the distinctive essence of a Bharat First Overseas Coverage.”
“A coverage that permits a resurgent India to train strategic autonomy in an more and more polarised local weather, pursue nationwide pursuits and reaffirm its pole place in world diplomacy!” he wrote.
The pictures additionally echo what Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had talked about because the important distinction in India’s overseas coverage in earlier and Modi authorities. “It’s a Bharat-First coverage, in contrast to what it was earlier than,” he stated.
PM Modi’s go to comes because the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues for the third 12 months.
Because the starting of the conflict, India has tried to stability its relations between Russia and Ukraine and repeatedly known as for “peaceable decision by way of dialogue”.
