Russia, China Did Not Support G20 Foreign Ministers’ Communique: Blinken

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday mentioned Russia and China had been the 2 nations which didn’t assist a joint communique on the India-hosted G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting.

The opposition by the 2 nations on the references to the Russian invasion of warfare resulted within the assembly coming to an finish with out the joint communique regardless of India’s efforts to bridge the variations.

“Russia and China had been the one nations that made it clear that they’d not signal on to that textual content,” Blinken said at a press conference.

He also said that the US strongly supports India’s agenda for G20. As consensus elude on the joint communique, the meeting held under India’s presidency, adopted a Chair’s Summary and Outcome document listing various key priorities for the grouping.

“What we have seen is the outcome document that reflected the shared agreements on many issues by all foreign ministers,” Blinken mentioned, asserting that the US would proceed to assist Ukraine.

Referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s feedback in a video message on the G20 assembly, the US Secretary of State mentioned that he was proper that there are challenges to the multilateral system.

“These challenges in some ways are coming immediately from Russia which is violating the rules that lie on the coronary heart of that system,” Blinken said.

The US Secretary of State also said that he briefly spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and called upon him to reverse its decision and return to implementing the new START Treaty.

“I told the Russian foreign minister that no matter what else is happening in the world and our relationship, the US will always be ready to engage and act on strategic arms control just as the US and the Soviet Union did at the height of the Cold War,” he mentioned.

Asked concerning the tax surveys at BBC workplaces in India and whether or not the US was involved over allegations that free speech and democratic rules are coming beneath stress in India, Blinken didn’t give a direct reply.

He mentioned each India and the US are the world’s two greatest democracies and each side need to work collectively to make sure that the democracy can ship to folks’s aspirations.

“We have to carry ourselves to core values together with respect for human rights like freedom of speech, freedom of faith & freedom of meeting,” he said.

“We regularly engage with India to encourage the Indian government to uphold human rights and justice and we look ourselves to do the same thing,” he mentioned.

Earlier within the day, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held bilateral talks with Blinken specializing in bilateral ties and urgent world points together with the Ukraine battle.

“Secretary of State Antony J Blinken and External Affairs Minister Jaishankar met in New Delhi right now to debate strengthening the US-India strategic partnership,” US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price said.

“They spoke about shared efforts to elevate and expand strategic technology and defence industrial cooperation, promote food, energy and global health security, clean energy transition, counternarcotics cooperation, and women’s economic empowerment,” he mentioned.

Price mentioned Blinken and Jaishankar additionally mentioned learn how to mitigate the worldwide impacts of Russia’s unlawful warfare in Ukraine, the cooperation between US and India within the Indo-Pacific and the profitable launch of the initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET).

Blinken arrived in Delhi on Wednesday night time primarily to attend the G20 international ministers’ assembly.

He is about to attend a Quad international ministers’ assembly on Friday.

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