NEW DELHI: Russia should not go to war with impunity, US Secretary of State State of Antonius Blinken said on Friday after meeting his counterparts from India, Japan and Australia in New Delhi.
The so-called Quad The group also said in a statement after the meeting that the use or threat of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine was “unacceptable”.
Late last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended a landmark nuclear arms control treaty and threatened to resume nuclear testing.
“If we let Russia do what it is doing in Ukraine with impunity, it will send a message to would-be aggressors everywhere that they might be able to get away with it too.” Flashing told a forum in India also attended by the Quad ministers.
Blinken met Quad group counterparts on the sidelines of a G20 meeting in New Delhi where ministers had exchanged blame for the conflict.
A day earlier, Blinken met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in New Delhi for the first time since the conflict in Ukraine began just over a year ago. During the brief meeting, Blinken urged Moscow to end the war and lift the suspension of the New START nuclear treaty, a senior US official said.
This is reported by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Lavrov and Blinken spoke for less than 10 minutes and engaged in no negotiations, Russian news agencies reported.
At the G20, the United States and its allies called on member states to continue pressuring Russia to end the conflict, but the G20 was unable to agree on a joint statement on the war due to opposition from Russia, which called its actions a ” special military action”. operation”, and China.
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Friday urged the world community to work together. “Anyone abstaining in different regions should understand that we are dealing with something that breaks the possibility of a global consensus,” he said.
In their statement, the Quad ministers also made a thinly veiled swipe at China, denouncing actions that are heightening tensions in the South China Sea and the “militarization” of disputed areas in the area.
China has denounced the Quad as a Cold War construct and cabal “targeting other countries”. The title of the group is the Four-way security dialoguefocused on strategic issues in the Indo-Pacific region.
The so-called Quad The group also said in a statement after the meeting that the use or threat of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine was “unacceptable”.
Late last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended a landmark nuclear arms control treaty and threatened to resume nuclear testing.
“If we let Russia do what it is doing in Ukraine with impunity, it will send a message to would-be aggressors everywhere that they might be able to get away with it too.” Flashing told a forum in India also attended by the Quad ministers.
Blinken met Quad group counterparts on the sidelines of a G20 meeting in New Delhi where ministers had exchanged blame for the conflict.
A day earlier, Blinken met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in New Delhi for the first time since the conflict in Ukraine began just over a year ago. During the brief meeting, Blinken urged Moscow to end the war and lift the suspension of the New START nuclear treaty, a senior US official said.
This is reported by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Lavrov and Blinken spoke for less than 10 minutes and engaged in no negotiations, Russian news agencies reported.
At the G20, the United States and its allies called on member states to continue pressuring Russia to end the conflict, but the G20 was unable to agree on a joint statement on the war due to opposition from Russia, which called its actions a ” special military action”. operation”, and China.
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Friday urged the world community to work together. “Anyone abstaining in different regions should understand that we are dealing with something that breaks the possibility of a global consensus,” he said.
In their statement, the Quad ministers also made a thinly veiled swipe at China, denouncing actions that are heightening tensions in the South China Sea and the “militarization” of disputed areas in the area.
China has denounced the Quad as a Cold War construct and cabal “targeting other countries”. The title of the group is the Four-way security dialoguefocused on strategic issues in the Indo-Pacific region.
