Ajit Doval was welcomed by Indian Ambassador Suhel Khan and Consul Basic Mohammed Shahid Alam.
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia:
Nationwide Safety Adviser Ajit Doval has arrived in Jeddah to take part in a summit of nationwide safety advisers and different officers being hosted Saudi Arabia at present to debate the continued Russia-Ukraine battle.
Ajit Doval was welcomed on the Jeddah Airport by Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Suhel Khan and Consul Basic Mohammed Shahid Alam.
“Shri Ajit Doval, NSA arrived in Jeddah to participate in Nationwide Safety Advisers’ assembly on Ukraine. He was welcomed at Jeddah Airport by Ambassador Dr Suhel Khan and Consul Basic Mohd Shahid Alam,” the Indian Embassy in Riyadh mentioned on Twitter.
Shri Ajit Doval, NSA arrived in Jeddah to participate in Nationwide Safety Advisors’ assembly on Ukraine. He was welcomed at Jeddah Airport by Ambassador Dr Suhel Khan and Consul Basic Mohd Shahid Alam.@MEAIndia@IndianDiplomacypic.twitter.com/wmLQ10f17l
— India in Saudi Arabia (@IndianEmbRiyadh) August 5, 2023
The assembly is being organised within the coastal metropolis of Jeddah to debate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plan for peace amid the continued battle with Russia.
The Ministry of Exterior Affairs on Friday confirmed India’s participation within the summit.
“India will take part on this occasion and our participation is in consonance with our long-standing place that dialogue and diplomacy is the way in which ahead,” mentioned MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi.
“Sure, India has been invited to a gathering being hosted by Saudi Arabia on Ukraine in Jeddah,” Bagchi mentioned whereas replying to a query at a press briefing of the Ministry of Exterior Affairs.
Russia’s state-run Tass information company reported Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov as saying: “Russia will control this assembly” however would want “to completely perceive what objectives are being set.”
The Wall Avenue Journal, on July 29 first reported on the summit citing “diplomats concerned within the dialogue”, and mentioned the talks would happen on August 5 and 6, within the metropolis of Jeddah, with some 30 international locations attending.
WSJ additionally mentioned that Ukrainian and Western officers are hopeful that the efforts may conclude in a peace summit later this 12 months the place international leaders would signal as much as shared rules for resolving the battle.
For the Jeddah summit, the 30 invitees embody Chile, Egypt, the European Union, Indonesia, Mexico, Poland, the UK, the USA and Zambia, based on WSJ.
Zelenskyy’s chief of employees, Andriy Yermak, mentioned on Sunday that officers from a number of international locations would participate within the Saudi Arabian summit however didn’t say when or through which metropolis the assembly can be held, reported Al Jazeera.
Yermak wrote on Telegram, that discussions will happen on the Ukrainian Peace System, which “incorporates 10 basic factors, the implementation of which won’t solely guarantee peace for Ukraine, but in addition create mechanisms to counter future conflicts on the earth”.
“We’re deeply satisfied that the Ukrainian peace plan must be taken as a foundation as a result of the battle is happening on our land,” Al Jazeera quoted Yermak as saying.
Relating to the Russia-Ukraine battle, India has all the time maintained that the battle should be resolved by dialogue and diplomacy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has additionally mentioned, “India is able to do no matter it may possibly for a peaceable decision of the battle.”
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian Warfare which started in 2014. The invasion has killed tens of hundreds on each side. Russian forces have been accused of mass civilian casualties and of torturing captured Ukrainian troopers.
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