Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky meets with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Picture: Reuters)
PM Modi invited President Zelensky to India who mentioned later at a press convention that he can be joyful to go to.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to go to India throughout their talks.
Modi paid an almost nine-hour go to to Kyiv within the first-ever go to to Ukraine by an Indian prime minister because it grew to become unbiased over three a long time again.
At a media briefing following the talks between the 2 leaders, Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar confirmed that Modi invited Zelensky to go to India.
“It’s vital that our prime minister has visited Ukraine for the primary time since 1992. It’s pure on such events that he extends an invite, which he did on this case,” he mentioned.
“So we count on that sooner or later, as per his comfort, President Zelensky will go to India,” Jaishankar added.
A joint assertion additionally mentioned that Modi invited Zelensky to go to India at a mutually handy alternative.
On the media briefing, Jaishankar, replying to a query, mentioned that India’s power commerce with Russia additionally got here up for discussions.
“Sure, it did. I wouldn’t say at nice size, however what we did was to elucidate to the Ukrainian aspect what was the power market state of affairs, the truth that right this moment many power producers are sanctioned, making the market doubtlessly very tight; and why really right this moment there’s a compulsion, in truth not only a compulsion, I imply why it’s within the curiosity of the worldwide financial system as an entire, that oil costs stay affordable and steady,” he mentioned.
