The Russian Foreign Ministry has alleged that the G7 countries are pressurising the Indian authorities to show their unilateral approaches to the situation in Ukraine in the G20 outcome documents.
“The G7 countries (primarily the USA, the UK, Germany, France) are putting pressure on India to reflect their unilateral approaches to the situation around Ukraine in the final documents of the G20 events,” the ministry’s website says.
The ministry clarifies that India is trying to adhere to a neutral status. They proceed from the fact that the G20 is purely an economic association.
“India has rejected the West’s demands to invite Ukraine to participate in the meetings of this format, thus preventing the US and its allies from levelling the weighty practical achievements of New Delhi’s year-long “watch” with their opportunistic considerations,” the Russian Foreign Ministry summarised.
Earlier, the special secretary of the Indian G20 presidency, Miktesh Pardeshi, said that Kiev was not included in the list of countries invited to the G20 summit. At the same time, when asked by journalists whether India would try to unite the countries of the Global South against Russia’s position on the Ukrainian conflict, the special secretary of the Indian G20 presidency said that the forum was an economic forum, not a geopolitical one. According to him, the summit could most likely discuss the economic consequences of the conflict, but not ways to resolve it.
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