{"id":74784,"date":"2025-05-04T21:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/74784\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T21:10:09","slug":"need-partners-not-preachers-eam-s-jaishankar-hits-out-at-europe-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/74784\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Need partners, not preachers&#8217;: EAM S Jaishankar hits out at Europe | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/External-affairs-minister-S-Jaishankar-speaks-at-the-Arctic-Circle-India-Forum-2025.jpg\" alt=\"'Need partners, not preachers': EAM S Jaishankar hits out at Europe\" title=\"External affairs minister S Jaishankar speaks at the Arctic Circle India Forum 2025\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>External affairs minister S Jaishankar speaks at the Arctic Circle India Forum 2025 NEW DELHI: India is looking for partners and not preachers who don&#8217;t practice what they preach at home, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Sunday in a swipe at Europe. Underlining India&#8217;s position on ties with Europe, the minister said for any partnership to flourish, it&#8217;s important to be sensitive to each other&#8217;s concerns.<br \/>Jaishankar has expressed the same sentiment on several occasions in the past few years amid differences over India&#8217;s expansion of energy ties with Moscow after the Russia-Ukraine war broke out. On this occasion, his comments also followed repeated calls by Western countries for India to not escalate tensions with Pakistan in the aftermath of the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/pahalgam-terror-attack\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pahalgam terror attack<\/a>. Calling the situation alarming, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, after a conversation with Jaishankar and her Pakistani counterpart Ishaq Dar, had urged restraint saying escalation helped no one.<br \/>&#8220;When we look out at the world, we look for partners; we do not look for preachers, particularly preachers who do not practice at home and preach abroad. I think some of Europe is still struggling with that problem. Some of it has changed,&#8221; Jaishankar said, while adding Europe has &#8220;entered a certain zone of reality check&#8221;.<br \/>&#8220;Now, whether they are able to step up to it or not, it is something we will have to see. But from our point of view, if we are to develop a partnership, there has to be some understanding, there has to be some sensitivity, there has to be a mutuality of interest and there has to be a realisation of how the world works,&#8221; he said.<br \/>The minister was also critical of earlier attempts by the West to find a solution to the Russia-Ukraine war without involving Russia, saying it &#8220;challenged the basics of realism&#8221;.<br \/>&#8220;Just like I am an advocate of Russia realism, I am also an advocate of America realism,&#8221; he said at the &#8216;Arctic Circle India Forum&#8217;.<br \/>&#8220;I think the best way to engage today&#8217;s America is also through finding mutuality of interests rather than putting ideological differences upfront and then allowing it to cloud the possibilities of working together,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"External affairs minister S Jaishankar speaks at the Arctic Circle India Forum 2025 NEW DELHI: India is looking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1500,36957,2000,4660,299,5187,10818,730,36956,10816,10817,4609,36955,2596,24067,36954,7661,5685],"class_list":{"0":"post-74784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-energy-ties-with-moscow","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-eu-foreign-policy","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-google-news","15":"tag-india","16":"tag-india-europe-relations","17":"tag-india-news","18":"tag-india-news-today","19":"tag-international-relations","20":"tag-jaishankar-statement","21":"tag-kaja-kallas","22":"tag-pahalgam-terror-attack","23":"tag-partnership-not-preachers","24":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","25":"tag-today-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114451619721174931","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}