Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday reiterated that the Ukraine conflict can be solved if the path of dialogue is preferred, and expressed his country's readiness to play a role in any '"peace process."
"From the beginning of the Ukraine conflict, India has clarified that this dispute can only be resolved through dialogues and diplomacy. And India is fully ready to contribute to any peace process," Modi told reporters in New Delhi after meeting his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave a press conference following the G20 ministerial meeting, where he once again emphasized that Russia was not rejecting any meaningful offers for peace talks with Ukraine, but Kiev had passed a law effectively prohibiting negotiations with Moscow.
It wasn't the first time Modi has called for negotiations to bring an end to the conflict in Ukraine.
Last month, after he met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Modi stated: "Since the beginning of the developments in Ukraine, India has insisted on resolving this dispute through dialogue and diplomacy."
Earlier in the day, Modi took a swipe at multilateral organizations in his opening remarks at the G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting, saying "multilateralism" was in crisis while "global order has failed."
"We must all acknowledge that multilateralism is in crisis today...The experience of the last few years - financial crisis, climate change, pandemic, terrorism and wars - clearly shows that global governance has failed," Modi said.
The Indian Prime Minister also urged world leaders to end their differences over divisive issues and find solutions by engaging in dialogue.
"We are meeting at a time of deep global divisions. We have a responsibility to those, not in this room. We should not allow issues that we cannot resolve together to come in the way of those we can," Modi stated. "We must focus on what unites us, not on what divides us," he concluded.