{"id":55388,"date":"2024-08-21T19:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=55388"},"modified":"2024-08-21T19:00:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T09:00:32","slug":"indian-pm-modi-calls-for-peace-before-heading-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=55388","title":{"rendered":"Indian PM Modi calls for &#8216;peace&#8217; before heading to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a &#8220;return of peace&#8221; Wednesday as he left for Ukraine, weeks after Kyiv condemned him for hugging President Vladimir Putin during a visit to traditional ally Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Modi, 73, will first visit Poland before travelling on to Ukraine on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a friend and partner, we hope for an early return of peace and stability in the region&#8221;, Modi said on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The premier has trodden a delicate balance between maintaining India&#8217;s historically warm ties with Russia while courting closer security<br \/>\npartnerships with Western nations as a bulwark against regional rival China.<\/p>\n<p>His government has avoided explicit condemnations of Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, instead urging both sides to resolve their differences through dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>It will be Modi&#8217;s first visit to Ukraine, and he said he would discuss with President Volodymyr Zelensky &#8220;perspectives on the peaceful resolution of the ongoing Ukraine conflict&#8221;, as well as the &#8220;deepening the India-Ukraine friendship&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a &#8220;return of peace&#8221; Wednesday as he left for Ukraine, weeks after Kyiv condemned him for hugging President Vladimir Putin during a visit to traditional ally Russia. Modi, 73, will first visit Poland before travelling on to Ukraine on Friday. &#8220;As a friend and partner, we hope for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2157],"class_list":["post-55388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-indian-pm-modi-calls-for-peace-before-heading-to-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}