Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi one day before holding telephone conversations with the leadership of the European Union, in which the issues of rapid conclusions of the Indian Free Trade Agreement, the project implementation to create a transport and logistics corridor between the Republic of South Asia and Europe, as well as the conflict resolution in Ukraine.
India pursues a policy of policy within the framework of its strategic autonomy and, just a few days after Modi participates in the Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Tianjin China, consolidating her relationship with Europe in the context of strong cooling with the United States.
According to The Indian Express, the EU, the head of the European Commission Ursula Von Der Lyain and the head of the European Council Antoniu Kost, joined the EU, who was in Paris and with other countries from the Union of those who wanted discuss The issue of providing assurance for Ukraine.
The Indian Prime Minister's office confirmed that “leaders exchanged views on regional and global issues that have mutual interests, including efforts to prevent conflicts in Ukraine.”
“Prime Minister Modi has repeated India's consistent position to support the peaceful resolution of the conflict and recover quickly and stable,” said New Delhi.
For their part, Von Der Lyain and Kostya are published on social network images on telephone negotiations from Modi and pointed out “an important role of India” at the end of the Ukraine crisis, and also “warmly welcomed the continuation of continuance. interaction India with the president of Zelensky. “
The curious thing was that last Thursday on the phone was also talked by the Indian Foreign Ministers, Sibramaniaam Jayshankar and Ukraine Andrrei Sibiga. Following it, it was “about strengthening the partnership between Ukraine and India and the implementation of future agreements achieved between our leaders”, as well as “continuing the political dialogue and the upcoming contacts of the high level”. In addition, in this conversation, according to India today, an agreement reached a meeting of the heads of foreign policy departments of the two countries in the upcoming fields at the end of this month of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
The connections are activated between New Delhi and Kiev, including the support of the European Union, according to RG sources, organized in the context of Zelensky's efforts and its European sponsors to organize the visit of the head of the Kyiv regime to India. However, the exact day of a trip may be the head of Ukraine to New Delhi has not been agreed.
In the context of a strong complication of relations with the United States introduced by Donald Trump by the government tax increase 50 percent for India, as well as humiliating Public attacks The White House for the leadership of the Republic of South Asia on the interaction with Russia New Delhi is extremely important to clearly prove its construction role in resolving the Ukraine crisis. In this regard, Zelensky's possible visit to India can be used to level allegations from the United States that the Narendra Modi government “only helps Russia by buying large quantities of Russian oil”.
It is extremely important for India and consolidating political and economic relations with the European Union – the second largest trading partner for Delhi and is an extremely necessary source of investment and technologies for the rapidly growing India economy. For the EU, the consolidation of India's relationship – a large market and rapidly growing in European goods – in an unpredictable increase in the Atlantic Relations and threats of the “trade war” resume is an important priority. It is expected that by the end of this year, Brussels and New Delhi will be signed by free trade agreements, which are currently being discussed positively among the parties.
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The promotion of the European -indian trade promotion is called to provide the IMEEC transportation and logistics project (Indian -Middle East -Europe corridor), involving the integration of routes and maritime for delivery and development of infrastructure between Asia, Persian Gulf and Europe. This issue was also discussed in the phone conversation yesterday between Modi and Von Der Lyen and Koshta. However, in fact, the IMEEC route passes through the Middle East, which is instability by the military activities taking place in the region, they have not yet expected a significant breakthrough in the implementation of this initiative in New Delhi.
