After talks with Jaishankar, Zelenskyy had said that he was “grateful to India for its commitment to ending this unjust war.”
“This certainly must not be a time of war. Peace is needed. This is India’s clear position,” he said and hoped that other major world powers would also take a clear stance that this war must end and that a reliable peace must be achieved.
On Friday, Jaishankar reiterated that India believes that endless war must give way to an end to war.
“These are wars without winners. Every additional day means more death, more destruction, more loss to the parties themselves, and more cost to the rest of the world,” he said in Warsaw.
The External Affairs Minister recalled that this concern was voiced publicly by Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently.
“Our efforts must therefore focus on promoting dialogue and diplomacy. We must each do what we can in whichever way we believe could be most effective and support the efforts of others to bring this conflict to an end. This is India’s strong conviction, and we are acting on it,” he added.
On India’s purchases of Russian oil, the minister said the issue is a conflict, and its solution lies in negotiations, not in trade.
“This war is not going to end… not because somebody chose to buy or not buy oil or alumina or fertilisers or metals and minerals. It will end when there is diplomacy, when there is dialogue and when there is negotiation. So, I think let’s diagnose the problem right,” he said while replying to another question.
(With inputs from PTI)