NEW DELHI, India
The so-called Quad group Friday released a statement after their meeting where they said the use, or threat of use, of nuclear weapons in Ukraine was “inadmissible.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony
Blinken addressed the forum in India where he said allowing Russia to continue
its invasion with no consequences would pave way to other nations following
suit.
“If we allow with impunity
Russia to do what it’s doing in Ukraine, then that’s a message to would-be
aggressors everywhere that they may be able to get away with it too,” said
Blinken.
Senior U.S. officials said the
secretary of state met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday
for the first time since Moscow’s “special military operation” started just
over a year ago.
Officials add that the brief
encounter between the two representatives led to Blinken calling on Moscow to
end the war in Eastern Europe and reverse its suspension of the New START
nuclear treaty.
Russian news agencies report
that Lavrov and Blinken spoke for less than 10 minutes and did not engage in
any negotiations.
Josep Borrell, European
Union’s Foreign Policy Chief said the global community needs to jointly condemn
President Vladimir Putin’s administration for the ongoing war.
“Everybody who is abstaining
in several different regions, they have to understand that we are facing
something that breaks the possibility of having a world consensus,” said
Borrell. - Reuters
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