Citing PM Modi's ‘not an era of war’ comment on Russia, US says ‘India has…’

 

Russia-Ukraine War: Lauding PM Modi, Ned Price said, “India has the ability we

 have seen from Prime Minister Modi to speak with tremendous moral clarity.”

The United States expressed hope that it can work with India to bring an end to Russia's

 invasion of Ukraine, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said. Lauding PM Modi, 

Ned Price said, "India has the ability we have seen from Prime Minister Modi to speak with 

tremendous moral clarity. When Prime Minister Modi said last year "this is not an era of war", 

the world listened as they should because when Prime Minister Modi and his country said 

something to that effect, its meaningful to the United States, it's meaningful to Russia, it is 

meaningful to countries near and far."

"We will continue to work with our Indian partners they obviously have a unique role to play in 

this as the G20 host. But, also as a country with whom we have global strategic partnership 

and a country that has a unique relationship with Russia that we don't and just as India has 

consistently expressed that this is not and should not be an era of war," he added referencing 

a meeting between Russian president Vladimir Putin and PM Modi on the sidelines of the 

Shanghai Cooperation Organization's summit in Samarkand last year. PM Modi had then told 

Russian president, "Today's era is not of war and I have spoken to you about it on the call."

Ned Price further said, "We hope that we can work closely with India to bring about an end to 

this war, an end to this Russian aggression to an end that is at its core just endurable and 

very much in line with the principles in the UN charter." Price said that India has longstanding 

and historical ties with Russia and is connected to Russia in many ways that US is not."

He also added that India has ties with Russia that are distinct from the US ties with Moscow.

"There are countries around the world that have a relationship with Russia that is distinct from 

the one we have, India certainly falls within that category. India has longstanding, historical 

ties to Russia. It is connected to Russia in ways that United States is not and for that matter 

has not been. India also has tremendous leverage in different areas whether its economic 

leverage, diplomatic leverage, political leverage, but also moral leverage," Ned Price said

With his comments to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Ukraine War, Prime Minister 

Narendra Modi signalled India is neither in the Western nor in Russian camp and it has its 

independent position.

The Western media is making much of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks on Ukraine during his meeting with President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Uzbekistan on Friday. 

Modi told Putin that this is not “an era of war”. The US press took the comment as Modi chastising Putin.  

Does this mean that New Delhi is veering round to the US camp on Ukraine?  It’s not so, but there is a nuanced shift in its tone to publicly assert to the world that India has its independent position on the Ukraine War. The United States and Europe will be happy with Modi’s comments to Ukraine. However, it does not mean that India’s relations with Russia are about to change. Modi, like China’s President Xi Jinping and other countries across the world, wants the fighting in Ukraine to stop and the disruption caused by the war on supply chains to end.

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