The European Union (EU) and Russia took a stand on two extremes on Wednesday to place their hope that India, as chair of the G20, will use its role to end the geopolitical and economic crisis caused by the war in Ukraine, that of Moscow and the West blame each other.
The pressure is on New Delhi amid the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting being held between today and tomorrow in the Indian capital, in which the year-long war sparked by the Russian invasion in Ukraine should have a central place on the agenda.
The neutral stance of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, which so far has not condemned Russian actions alone, is sometimes read as ambivalent and on others as veiled support for the Kremlin, which is why much part of the international community expects India to serve as a bridge or key stage for the international isolation of Russia.
The High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, today placed his confidence in “India using its diplomatic capacity to make it clear to Russia that this war must end”. he said in an interaction with journalists from the Indian Capital before the start of the G20 meeting today.
EU is clear: ‘War must be condemned, Russia must stop and step down,’ Borrell said in reiteration that advances bloc’s stance against demand that G20 in unison condemn actions Russians.
The meeting of foreign ministers culminating tomorrow is preceded by the meeting of G20 finance ministers last week in the Indian city of Bangalore, which ended after two days of meetings without consensus due to the disagreement between the China and Russia over Ukraine. affair.
Russia advocated the misma jornada para dar dar publicly su apoyo a la India “in its compromise to promote a unifying agenda that will restore confidence in multilateral diplomacy and avoid the fragmentation of the global economy”, said in a statement written the embajada rusa en la New Delhi.
The show of support for Russia occurs within the framework of the visit of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to participate in the G20 meeting.
Russia plans to “clearly state” its assessments “on the current security, energy and food situation”, as well as to denounce “the destructive barriers that the West is multiplying exponentially to block the export of goods of critical for the world. the economy, including energy sources and agricultural products.
Lavrov today pointed to the positions of Moscow and New Delhi as close positions, as the two “constantly oppose neo-colonial practices such as illegitimate unilateral sanctions, threats, blackmail and other types of pressure on sovereign states,” he said at an event in the capital. .
The head of Russian diplomacy also took the opportunity to meet with his Brazilian counterparts, Mauro Vieira; the Indian, S. Jaishankar, the Turk, Mevlüt Cavusoglu.
Representatives of the Group of Twenty were invited to the New Delhi meeting, including Lavrov, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang. In addition, twenty other delegations have been invited, many of them representing developing and emerging economies.