Breaking News : Russia-Ukraine Conflict At some stage, people will come to table, sooner the better, says S Jaishankar on Ukraine conflict…See More

Russia-Ukraine Conflict Highlights News: Asserting that one is not going to find a solution from the battlefield, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that at some stage, “people will come to the table” when it comes to the prolonged Russia-Ukraine conflict.

The 69-year-old, who is in Italy on an official visit from November 24-26 to participate in the Outreach session of the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, said “the sooner they do it, the better because the rest of the world is being affected”.

Jaishankar said this during an interview to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

“We have today two major conflicts taking place simultaneously. This is putting the entire international system under great stress,” he said.

“And we cannot be just spectators and say, well, that’s the way it is. It may or may not work. We will not know until we try. But we do believe that on both these conflicts, in Ukraine and in the Middle East, countries need to take initiatives, make efforts, however difficult it looks, to try and find some common ground, something better than what we have today,” he was quoted as saying in the interview published on Tuesday.

On the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the union minister reiterated that India thinks that there should be “diplomacy to find a way of ending the conflict”.

“And that’s what we are trying to do,” he said.
The Russia-Ukraine conflict that began in February 2022 entered its 1,000th day on November 19.