Speaking to PTI right here forward of his go to to India, Guterres additionally stated he’s “very concerned” with escalation within the Russia-Ukraine warfare, “especially when escalation causes a large number of civilian victims, obviously it only worsens what is already a very difficult situation.”
Russian President Putin ordered a “special military operation” towards Ukraine on February 24. The raging battle has additional heightened financial stresses, particularly on meals and vitality.
“I think that what” Prime Minister Modi “said to Russian President Putin that this is not the time for war is absolutely true. No time is the time for war. But this time in particular is not the time for war. So, I fully support that,” Guterres stated.
“And of course, all efforts that can be made in order to create conditions for a solution, a solution in respect of the UN Charter and international law, will be very much welcome,” Guterres stated forward of his three-day go to to India beginning Tuesday.
This is his first go to to the nation since he commenced his second time period in workplace in January 2022. Guterres had earlier visited India in his first time period because the UN Chief from October 1-4, 2018.
During a bilateral assembly with President Putin on the sidelines of the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Samarkand in September, Prime Minister Modi underlined the significance of “democracy, dialogue and diplomacy” whereas calling for an early cessation of hostilities in Ukraine.
“I know today’s era is not of war. We discussed this issue with you on phone several times, that democracy, diplomacy and dialogue touch the entire world,” Modi had stated in his first in-person assembly with Putin for the reason that Ukraine battle started in February.
Early this month, Modi had a telephonic dialog with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, throughout which he had “expressed his firm conviction that there can be no military solution to the conflict and conveyed India’s readiness to contribute to any peace efforts.”
When requested if conversations across the Ukraine warfare are anticipated to come up throughout his interplay with the Indian management throughout his go to to the nation, Guterres stated “we have been very active in a very discreet way, because I don’t believe in megaphone diplomacy”.
“I believe that discreet diplomacy still has an important role to play and we’ve been very active in trying to explore all forms to minimise the suffering of the people in Ukraine and to minimise the suffering of people around the world,” he stated.
He referred to the efforts for the discharge of civilians from Azovstal, settlement in relation to the Black Sea initiative for exports of Ukrainian meals, in addition to the Memoranda of Understanding with Russia in “which we are doing everything to make sure that Russian food and fertilizers have unrestricted access to world markets and that the collateral damage of sanctions, even if the sanctions do not apply to food and fertilizers, is entirely removed.”
He stated “we have been working very hard” with the US, European Union, UK and with others and “I believe that we will achieve important results on that and we are open to go on looking for the areas in which we can be useful and hoping that one day we will be able to contribute to peace in line with the values of the Charter that we are supposed to uphold.”
The Black Sea Grain Initiative is the settlement on the resumption of Ukrainian grain exports through the Black Sea amid the continued Russia-Ukraine warfare.
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