LONDON: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak raised India’s neutral position on Ukraine with PM Narendra Modi during their recent phone call, it has emerged. UK foreign secretary James Cleverly also raised the issue “directly” with external affairs minister S Jaishankar on his recent trip to India.
The No. 10 readout of Sunak’s call with Modi did not mention Ukraine but it did say the two leaders “discussed shared global challenges”. But in a debate on Ukraine in the House of Lords on Tuesday, Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, UK junior minister for South Asia, confirmed the matter had been raised at the highest level.