"India has close and friendly relations with both the United States and Russia and they stand on their own merit," the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) told Parliament on Thursday, in reply to a query whether the Ukraine war had affected ties.
MEA's statement comes in response to the recent remarks made by the US President Joe Biden calling India’s stance on Russian invasion of Ukraine as “shaky”, which was later clarified by the US State Department.
"India has called for immediate cessation of hostilities and return to the path of diplomacy and dialogue with respect to the conflict in Ukraine," Minster of State, MEA, Meenakshi Lekhi stated in a written reply.
The government’s statement was replying to an unstarred question raised by Member of Parliament K. R. Suresh Reddy.
In addition, the government also informed that it had evacuated around 22,500 Indian nationals from Ukraine since February. It also added that as part of its timely response to the crisis, the country launched ‘Operation Ganga’ under which 90 evacuation flights including, 14 Indian Air Force flights were operated and were monitored at the MEA on a 24x7 basis as well.
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