India will participate in Switzerland peace talks, but it is not decided who will be the representative

New Delhi: India will participate in the peace summit being held in Switzerland on June 15-16 regarding the Ukraine and Russia conflict. Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra said in a press conference on Thursday that India will participate in this conference, but there is no clarity yet on who will go to the resort town of Bergenstock for representation. Let us tell you that even before the election results came out, the Prime Minister had said in a conversation with the media that India would participate in the peace talks conference. However, China has distanced itself from this conference by saying that it does not want to be a part of any talks in which both the parties are not involved. On May 24, China and Brazil have also signed a joint statement, which advocates that the conflict should be ended only through the participation of both Russia and Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Zelensky has appealed to India to join
In fact, Ukrainian President Zelensky has appealed to India several times to participate in this conference, even in his/her congratulatory message after PM Modi won the election, Zelensky had said that he/she discussed the upcoming global peace agreement with PM Modi and we believe in India’s important role. However, despite Western pressure, India has so far described wars on every international platform as irrelevant in today’s world, while it has maintained a diplomatic balance regarding the Ukraine-Russia conflict. This time too, there is an unspoken pressure on India from the Western block including Ukraine that it should play an active role in the peace talks. This can be gauged from the fact that after the announcement of organizing the conference by Switzerland in January, the Swiss Foreign Minister had expressed the hope of India’s participation to External Affairs Minister Jaishankar during his/her visit to India.

PM Modi also spoke to Zelensky
A few days later, PM Modi spoke to Zelensky along with Putin to congratulate the Russian President after he/she won the elections in his/her country. Regarding his/her conversation, PM posted on Instagram and said that ‘India will continue to support all efforts for peace and to end the ongoing conflict as soon as possible. Recently, after the visit of Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, Swiss Foreign Secretary Alexander Fasle visited India. he/she had emphasized that India should join it. That is, there has been an unspoken pressure on India to join this peace talks. However, in the meantime, Russia has said many times that the discussion related to ending the war in Ukraine can be successful only when Russia’s interests are taken care of, while Putin has already said that there can be no peace until Russia’s objective is achieved.

India will try to achieve two objectives
It is not being made clear from India’s side whether PM will go to this summit or not, if someone other than PM is sent for this meeting then it is certain that India wants to achieve two objectives through this, first India wants to give a signal that it will participate in the summit i.e. Zelensky’s point was also taken into consideration and there has been no change in its foreign policy towards Russia due to the absence of the highest leadership and in such a situation the balance of foreign policy will remain intact.