NEW DELHI (AFP) – A Ukrainian minister will visit India from today in the first face-to-face talks between the two countries since the invasion of Ukraine last year.
Kyiv’s First Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova will “exchange views on the current situation in Ukraine” with a senior member of India’s Foreign Ministry, according to an Indian government statement.
India shares “warm and friendly relations and multifaceted cooperation” with Ukraine and the visit will be an occasion to “further mutual understanding and interests”, the Foreign Ministry statement added.
There was no indication that Dzhaparova would meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi or ministers from his government.
A report in The Hindu newspaper yesterday said Dzhaparova would meet with media and think-tanks in New Delhi in an effort to build support for Ukraine.
She was also likely to invite Modi to visit Kyiv, it said.
