India ready to provide all possible help to end Russia-Ukraine conflict: PM Modi to Putin
Narendra Modi on Tuesday, during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Kazan, said that India has been in touch with all sides on ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict through dialogue and that «India is always ready to help bring peace».
In his opening remarks at the meeting with Putin on the eve of the BRICS summit, Modi said, «We have been in touch with all sides in the Russia-Ukraine problem. It has always been our position that all conflicts can be solved with dialogue. We believe there should be peaceful solutions to conflicts. India is always ready to help bring peace.»
These remarks must be viewed in the context of Modi's earlier conversation with Putin on the Ukraine conflict and his two meetings with the Ukrainian President since August. Following his visit to Kyiv, Modi telephoned Putin to share his thoughts and later NSA also met Putin and apprised him about the PM's trip. While India has not created a peace formula like Brazil and China, New Delhi has been in touch with all stakeholders to end the conflict through negotiations and pitched for Russia's presence in peace summits for durable peace.
During the meeting in the heritage city of Kazan, the two leaders held in-depth dialogue, eyeing to expand strategic and economic partnership that covered a slew of subjects comprising Arctic, Far-East Russia, agriculture sector (fertilisers), energy, civil nuclear energy, industrial and strategic minerals connectivity initiatives and region-to-region cooperation, ET has learnt. The two leaders
