Russia-Ukraine conflict: India open to play role of mediator to end war, says EAM S. Jaishankar

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Jaishankar said India is “deeply convinced, and is publicly committed to bringing the conflict to an end”. “Everyone is suffering from this conflict. I don’t know exactly how it will end, we’re not deep enough into the process to know,” he said. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has suggested that India will be willing to consider acting as a mediator to resolve the Russia-Ukraine conflict if approached but emphasised that New Delhi does not believe it should initiate anything on its own. In an interview with the German economic daily Handelsblatt, Jaishankar also mentioned that following the Ukraine conflict, India’s...