Phnom Penh: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday and mentioned the Ukraine battle, the strategic Indo-Pacific location and bilateral members of the family at the sidelines of the ASEAN-India summit withinside the Cambodian capital.
Mr Jaishankar is accompanying Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, who’s main the Indian delegation to the ASEAN-India Commemorative Summit and the seventeenth East Asia Summit.
“A appropriate assembly with US Secretary of State @SecBlinken. Discussed Ukraine, Indo-Pacific, strength, G20 and bilateral members of the family,” Mr Jaishankar stated in a tweet.
He additionally met UN leader Antonio Guterres on the quit of the ASEAN gala dinner on Saturday.
Mr Jaishankar held additionally talks together along with his counterpart from Thailand Don Pramudwinai.
“Always excellent to capture up with DPM & FM Don Pramudwinai of Thailand. Discussed our shared nearby issues and the strengthening partnership with ASEAN,” he stated.
“Met Canadian colleagues Trade Minister @mary_ng and FM @melaniejoly on the ASEAN gala dinner. All for more exchange and strategic convergence, at the same time as countering terrorism and opposing radicalization,” he stated in any other tweet.
US President Joe Biden additionally attended the East Asia Summit. He shook fingers with Vice President Dhankhar at some point of the summit.
S Jaishankar on Saturday mentioned a variety of troubles together along with his opposite numbers from Canada, Indonesia and Singapore.
India has now no longer but condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine and has been retaining that the disaster ought to be resolved via international relations and dialogue.
Since the Ukraine War commenced in February, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken to each Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy some of times.
In a phone communique with Zelenskyy on October 4, Modi stated there can be “no army solution” and that India is prepared to make a contribution to any peace efforts.
In his assembly with Putin that passed off at the sidelines of the once a year summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Samarkand in September this year, Modi driven tehe Russian President to quit the battle in Ukraine, saying “present day technology isn’t of war” whilst he known as for locating methods to cope with the worldwide meals and strength protection disaster.