Finnish foreign minister hopes India will be more vocal on Ukraine war
Live MintFinland’s foreign minister Elina Valtonen on Thursday called upon India to play a larger role in the ongoing Ukraine war, which started 2 years ago, and act in defence of the values enshrined in the United Nations Charter. "We would hope that India as the world's largest democracy would take a clear role in this and that would be to protect the basic values we share and the UN Charter’” Valtonen told Mint. However, senior political and diplomatic figures in Europe have argued that the conflict in Ukraine has consequences for Asia and countries like India. And if we don't stand up for the UN Charter now, this will probably embolden other actors, say, here in Asia, to destabilize or try to redraw maps of something which should be a thing of the past and not a thing of the present,” Valtonen told Mint on the sidelines of the Raisina Dialogue 2024 in New Delhi.