Quad leaders echo Modi on Ukraine: ‘Ours must not be an era of war’

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The Quad leaders on Saturday called for ending the Ukraine war through dialogue and diplomacy while asserting that it must not be an era of war, a formulation that echoed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s position. The leaders of the four Quad nations — Modi, US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese — discussed the situation in Ukraine along with other pressing global challenges at the grouping’s annual summit in Hiroshima. In his address at the summit, Modi described the Indo-Pacific region as an “engine” of global trade, innovation and development and said...