India is obliged to rules-based international order, the United States told on Wednesday, striving that New Delhi would stand by its side in the issue of an impending Russian invasion of Ukraine.
During the just-ended Quad ministerial in Melbourne that comprising of foreign ministers from Australia, India, Japan and the United States, State Department Spokesperson Ned Price announced that there was a conversation between Russia and Ukraine.
Price told that there was a dominant consensus in that meeting that there wishes to be a diplomatic — a peaceful resolution to this. One of the core topics of the Quad is to reinforce the rules established on international order.
He further added that it is a rules-based referendum that applies equally in the Indo-Pacific as it commits in Europe as it does anywhere else. He noted that the Indian partners are obliged to that rules-based international order. There is any number of tenets in that ruling. One of them is that frontiers cannot be redrawn by force.
He also gave a response in a noticeable citation to the aggressive behaviour by China against its neighbours including India. He noted that large countries cannot bully small countries. That only the people of a special country can be in a stance to choose their foreign policy, their partnerships, their alliances, their associations. Those are principles that involve equally in the Indo-Pacific as they do in Europe.
Price told Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar talked over defence issues but avoided commenting if there was any dialogue on potential actions under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA).
Earlier in the day, Secretary of State Tony Blinken announced that the US is doing everything it probably can to pursue a peaceful solution to the crisis Moscow has “needlessly precipitated”.”But those efforts, as we’ve said, will be effective only if the Russian Federation is willing to de-escalate,” Price told media.
The state department spokesperson claimed that any one of these could be promoted to serve as a pretext for an invasion. Meanwhile, the Kremlin has continually rejected the notion that it has plans to attack Ukraine but urged that NATO never admit Ukraine and other ex-Soviet nations as members and the military alliance roll back troop deployments in obsolete Soviet bloc nations.
