"We have made the decision" not to invite Kiev to the G20 "because it is a platform focused on global growth and this must remain in the spotlight. The G20 is not the UN Security Council, it does not deal with security." This was stated by the Indian Foreign Minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, speaking to a small group of international media including ANSA.
"Prime Minister Modi met Zelensky at COP26, then at the G7 in Hiroshima, and we have good and solid relations with Ukraine in the economic, military, technological and food security fields," the minister said.
"For us, the only summit is the G20." This is how the Indian Foreign Minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, responded to a question on possible new international peace talks on Ukraine in September in New Delhi on the sidelines of the meeting of G20 leaders, after the meeting hosted in early August in Jeddah by Saudi Arabia.
"Diplomatic work to agree on a final declaration" at the G20 scheduled for September 9 and 10 in New Delhi referring to the war in Ukraine "is ongoing and requires time and patience." This was stated by the Foreign Minister of India, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, during a meeting with a small group of international media including ANSA.
"Twenty-three days before the summit, negotiations between the Sherpas are underway, diplomacy is not built in a day.
We will continue to work on it", assured Jaishankar, recalling that at the last G20 in Bali, Indonesia, the leaders had managed to find "a common landing point" on Ukraine also by virtue of the fact that the consequences of the war "continue to dominate the real world economy".
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