MOSCOW, November 8. /TASS/. New Delhi fears the consequences that the hostilities in Ukraine entail for energy and food security and advocates a return to dialogue and diplomacy, India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Tuesday.
"As Indian Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi conveyed to Russian President Putin in Samarkand in September: this is not an era of war. The global economy is simply too interdependent for a significant conflict anywhere not to have major consequences elsewhere," he said at a press conference following talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.
"We are seeing growing concerns on the energy and food security emanating from the conflict that are coming on top of stresses created by two years of Covid," he said, adding that "the global south is feeling this pain very acutely," he stressed.
According to him, India is on the side of peace, respect for international law and advocates supporting the UN Charter.
He also noted that the country "will be as helpful as we can be" to resolve the food crisis.
"For any initiative that deals with risks of the global economy and stabilizes the global order, India will be supportive," Jaishankar stressed.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request from the leaders of the Donbass republics for help. After that, the US, the EU, the UK, as well as a number of other states imposed sweeping sanctions against Russia and beefed up arms supplies to the Kiev regime.