Dzhaparova, arrived on Sunday and was speaking to the media after a meeting with MEA’s Secretary (West) Sanjay Verma.
New Delhi: isiting Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova on Monday, April 10, called on India to be pragmatic by diversifying its political interactions and energy and military resources, a report by Sandeep Dikshit in The Tribune, Chandigarh, says.
Dzhaparova, arrived on Sunday and was speaking to the media after a meeting with MEA’s Secretary (West) Sanjay Verma.
“We only think that it’s crucial to diversify resources, not only in energy but military resources too because what we see in my country is that when you are dependent on Russia, they will blackmail,” she said.
India Vishwaguru
India is a Vishwaguru… the war we have is not about NATO, the US, it’s about justice… Your PM in Samarkand said this is not an era of war. Emine Dzhaparova, Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister
“Discussed bilateral engagements and cooperation going forward. Wishing her a good trip. Her first as DFM, but a country she is familiar with,” tweeted Verma.
“India should be pragmatic in diversifying its energy resources, military contracts and political interactions. PM Modi’s policy of democracy, dialogue and diversity and ‘no era of war’ and strategic application is really important,” she said.
“It was a great meeting… hope political conversation will be intensified… I briefed India about the military situation, which is quite difficult when 10,000 Ukrainians have been killed.
This is the first official visit by a Ukraine minister to India after Russia launched the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, though PM Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar have met their counterparts but in third countries.
Dzhaparova made no mention of Kyiv’s reported desire to invite PM Modi to Ukraine, which is interpreted in strategic circles as a move to earn an invitation for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the upcoming G20 summit in India or at least the Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, who in December had said at the UNSC that “if India has not condemned Russia for the war, it is also providing humanitarian assistance to Ukraine”.
“It was a great meeting… hope political conversation will be intensified… I briefed India about the military situation, which is quite difficult when 10,000 Ukrainians have been killed. These are civilians and the civilian infrastructure has been damaged and broken by the missile attacks… we are not in the position of instructing India,” she said.
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