‘এটা আমাদের সংস্কৃতি’, BBC নিউজের সাংবাদিককে জেলেনস্কি-মোদীর আলিঙ্গনের ব্যাখ্যা জয়শঙ্করের
‘এটা আমাদের সংস্কৃতি’, BBC নিউজের সাংবাদিককে জেলেনস্কি-মোদীর আলিঙ্গনের ব্যাখ্যা জয়শঙ্করের
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00:00You talked about Prime Minister Modi's visit to Moscow last month and a lot of people here were very upset to see that embrace
00:07Between the two leaders, you know in our part of the world when people meet people they are given to
00:14Embracing each other it may not be part of your culture, but I assure you it's part of us
00:18Also, they were quite upset to see India overtake China in terms of the biggest
00:24Importer of Russian crude oil and also they say they're disappointed that there hasn't been an explicit
00:31Condemnation of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. India is a big oil
00:37Consumer it's a big oil important because we don't have oil now. It's not like there's a
00:43Political strategy to buy oil there is a oil strategy to buy oil
00:47There's a market strategy to buy oil and also they say they're disappointed that there hasn't been an explicit
00:52Condemnation of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. So in light of that, I'm just wondering whether
01:00You had difficulty today
01:02Persuading president Zelensky that India is not favoring Russia, but is indeed
01:08Pursuing a policy of non-alignment. I think it was a perfectly convivial conversation. I think it was very constructive
01:15I think there was a lot that we said which he heard with a great deal of attention
01:20He knows that we mean well by Ukraine he knows that you know, we are today
01:30You know very very keen that this conflict should come to an end minister Nick beak from BBC News
01:36You talked about Prime Minister Modi's visit to Moscow
01:39Last month and a lot of people here were very upset to see that embrace between the two leaders
01:45Also, they were quite upset to see India overtake China in terms of the biggest
01:51importer of Russian
01:52Crude oil and also they say they're disappointed that there hasn't been an explicit
01:57condemnation of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, so
02:02In light of that, I'm just wondering whether you had difficulty today
02:07Persuading president Zelensky that India is not favoring Russia, but is indeed
02:13Pursuing a policy of non-alignment and secondly because of that meeting in Russia last month
02:20I think Prime Minister Modi is probably the most significant influential world leader to have spoken to both sides recently
02:27What personal role could he play in some sort of pursuit of peace?
02:33Thank you regarding
02:35Your question, you know in our part of the world when people meet people
02:41They are given to embracing each other it may not be part of your culture, but I assure you it's part of us
02:48So in fact today
02:50I think I saw the Prime Minister also embraced president Zelensky and I've seen him do it
02:55With a number of other leaders in a number of other places
02:59so I think perhaps we have a
03:02slightly
03:04cultural
03:06Gap here in terms of what these courtesies mean
03:12in terms of
03:15You know what you asked about the oil issue look
03:20You know India is a big oil
03:24Consumer it's a big oil important because we don't have oil now. It's not like there's a
03:30Political strategy to buy oil there is a oil strategy to buy oil. There's a market strategy to buy oil
03:37So the figures of where we get our oil imports go up and down
03:42It depends on the state of the market
03:43But it would definitely I think the fact that the market is tight that today
03:49Big suppliers like Iran and Venezuela who used to supply India
03:54are
03:56are constrained
03:58From operating freely in the markets. I think there's a factor which which needs to be taken into account
04:06Regarding
04:08You know the conversation between the Prime Minister and President Zelensky. I think it was a perfectly convivial conversation
04:15I think it was very constructive. I think there was a lot that we said which he heard with a great deal of attention
04:20He knows that we mean well by Ukraine. He knows that you know we are
04:28Today
04:30You know very very keen that this conflict should come to an end and
04:35Essentially what the message from our side
04:39To him which you know, which surely would have not come as a surprise to him
04:43Is that you know if there is anything that we can do in any way?
04:47you know
04:49sort of
04:51Upfront or behind or supporting somebody, you know
04:55It's it's the
04:57Objective that we are interested in
05:00Rather than the process
05:01we are willing to do whatever we can because we do think that the continuation of this conflict is is
05:08Terrible for obviously for Ukraine itself and for the world as well