PM Modi in Ukraine : After Russia visit, PM Modi gave this big message in his historic Ukraine visit
PM Modi in Ukraine : Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Ukraine on Friday, six weeks after leaving Russia. The main message appears to be that India would serve as a bridge of peace rather than take a side. Modi is now one of a few world leaders that have been welcomed by both nations throughout their conflict.
According to government sources, this was the feeling expressed in both the PM’s parting statement, in which he said he would exchange views with Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the “peaceful resolution of the ongoing Ukraine conflict,” and the PM’s affirmation in Poland on Wednesday that “this is the not the era of war.”
Modi’s statement, which he made to Vladimir Putin in 2022, to US President Joe Biden in Washington in 2023, and once again to Putin in Russia six weeks ago, has become a well-known reminder for international leaders of “India’s stand on the war.”
Just one month before, Zelenskyy had sharply criticized Modi’s visit to Moscow and voiced his disappointment at Modi for hugging “the world’s most bloody criminal in Moscow”; nonetheless, Modi is now being welcomed in Kyiv. The Prime Minister of India is anticipated to convey to Zelenskyy, as he did to Putin in July, the same message: “No solution can be found in the battlefield.”
The fact that the PM’s two excursions to Russia and Ukraine coincide with his much awaited trip to the United States in September for the UN General Assembly is noteworthy from a message and diplomatic posture perspective.
Zelenskyy-Modi Equation
For the first time in over thirty years, an Indian prime minister is visiting Ukraine, although Modi and Zelenskyy have already met three times in the last three years: in June in Apulia at this year’s G7 Summit, in Hiroshima during the G7 Summit last year, and in Glasgow during COP in 2021.
Since 2020, they have also had several phone conversations with one another. Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister, visited India earlier in March. It is obvious that both parties have communicated.
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When Modi makes his first visit to Ukraine, promoting peace will be his main priority. The administration has said unequivocally that it supports negotiation in order to achieve a sustainable peace. Modi has already pledged to give all assistance and support needed to find peaceful solutions to what his administration acknowledges is a “complex issue.”
In an official briefing this week, the government said that India maintains autonomous and significant connections with both Russia and Ukraine. “And these collaborations are independent. The administration had said, “I would like to say that this is not a zero-sum game.”
