"Now I count on India for peace": Zelensky
27 Dec 2022 10:55:46
New Delhi, Dec 27:War-torn Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday took to Twitter to announce that he had a conversation with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a phone call and talked about a ‘peace formula’.
Zelensky informed that he wished PM Modi a successful G20 presidency. Ukraine's President further went ahead to say that he shared a talk on the peace formula that he had proposed on the G20 platform and hoped that India would implement the same.
“I had a phone call with @PMOIndia Narendra Modi and wished him a successful G20 presidency. It was on this platform that I announced the peace formula and now I count on India's participation in its implementation. I also thanked for humanitarian aid and support in the UN." Zelensky wrote on Twitter. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office also released an official statement about the telephone conversation and said, “The two leaders discussed opportunities for strengthening bilateral cooperation. PM requested Ukraine authorities to facilitate arrangements for the continued education of Indian students who had to return from Ukraine earlier this year". Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office also released an official statement about the telephone conversation and said, “The two leaders discussed opportunities for strengthening bilateral cooperation. PM requested Ukraine authorities to facilitate arrangements for the continued education of Indian students who had to return from Ukraine earlier this year". India took over the presidency of the G20 on 1 December. The summit which will be held in September 2023 will be a culmination of all the G20 processes and meetings held throughout the year among ministers, senior officials, and civil societies starting in December. The Group of Twenty (G20) comprises 19 countries and the European Union. Its members represent around 85 percent of the global GDP, over 75 percent of the global trade, and about two-thirds of the world population. The first meeting of the Development Working Group (DWG) under India's G20 Presidency took place in Mumbai from 13-16 December. Meanwhile, Ukraine was set Monday to demand Russia's exclusion from the UN Security Council as Moscow claimed to have foiled the deepest drone attack by Kyiv in its territory.
Kyiv will make the demand 10 months into Moscow's offensive and as Russia's defiant leader Vladimir Putin accused the West of trying to "tear apart" his country. Russia on Monday said it downed a Ukrainian drone at its Engels airfield -- more than 600 kilometers (370 miles) from the Ukraine border.