Ukraine: India 'feeling the heat' over neutrality

[Uncle Joe]

Can India do more?

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Although India had managed the crisis admirably, it should have called a "spade a spade… It is an invasion, it is a war," India's former foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon told The Wire. It "affects your credibility if you don't", he added.

But Delhi's special relationship with Moscow - "fraught with nostalgia and deep trust", as Mr Kugelman describes it - means that it won't easily turn against its ally.

"These sentiments die hard, even after Russia has launched a massive, cold-blooded invasion. But at the same time India doesn't want to alienate its ties with the West".

One way to avoid alienation, say experts, is for India to offer itself as a third-party mediator - something which Ukraine's Ambassador to India, Igor Polikha, had urged at the beginning of the war.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-60857406

[elleng]

1. Good, they SHOULD be 'feeling the heat.'

'Nostalgia and deep trust?'

and nothing to 'mediate' about, imo.