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Lavrov, Blair & Pietersen: World talks about

crisis & solutions at Raisina Dialogue

Former UK Prime Minister says India’s position is potentially more powerful than ever and

that it is absurd India is not permanent member of UN Security Council

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New Delhi

he countries are not affected
by the Moscow-Kyiv conflict
Tbut the sanctions and policy of
blackmail, which the West is promot-
ing are the real reason behind their
sufferings, Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov said on Friday.
While talking at the Raisina
Dialogue, Lavrov said this is the
war against everything Russian in
Ukraine. Ukraine totally cancelled
the Russian Language in their region
but no one asked the question to Kyiv,
Lavrov wondered. “The countries of
the region are not affected by what
we are doing in Ukraine. They are
affected by the reaction of the West
on our work in Ukraine. For decades,
we we had warned them first that they
should stop the expansion of NATO
and pushing arms into Ukraine or
prepare them for the war against us.
I just participated in the G20 Minis-
terial,” the Russian Foreign Minister
stated while answering the query on External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar poses for a picture with Tony Blair and Kevin Pietersen during a panel discussion of ‘turbulence, tempera-
affected countries in the region by the ment and temerity: Leadership in the age of uncertainty’ at the Raisina Dialogue 2023, in New Delhi on Friday (ANI)
Russia-Ukraine war.
“Our Western friends were shout-
ing on the microphone ‘Russian must’. UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has UN Security Council is how do you if sport can be used to unite and bring
And though the developing coun- said that India’s position is potential- get consensus? The West has got no people together, it should be used
tries delegates were also saying that ly more powerful than ever with the option but to share the power. The for the purpose. “The war is scary.
‘we want to stop the war when Rus- G20 and that it is absurd to think that question is how you make sense of Pandemics and future pandemics are
sia is ready to negotiate’,” he added. India is not permanent member of international diplomacy in this new scary. So, when we talk about cricket
Lavrov further stated that he UN Security Council. world,” he added. and the opportunity to unite, sport
asked G20 members, who signed the Blair, who was participating in Blair noted that India today is a should be used. I think that sport can
declaration during the Bali summit, panel discussion ‘Turbulence, Tem- bigger economy than Britain. “It is be used in some sort of fashion to be
the question that whether the group perament, and Temerity: Leadership a geopolitical power, it is a post-co- able to try and mend it (the world),”
ever reflected in the Declarations sit- in the Age of Uncertainty’ on Friday lonial country that dominates the he said. A former captain of England
uation in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, or during the Raisina Dialogue here, said original English sport of cricket,” he cricket team, Pietersen was speaking
in Yugoslavia. India’s position in shifting geo-politics said during the panel discussion that on Friday at panel discussion ‘Turbu-
He also said that these days when is absolutely critical because the prog- included External Affairs Minister lence, Temperament, And Temerity:
it is not something that the West is ress the country has made in the last S Jaishankar and former England Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty’
doing, believe that it is right. When few years has been remarkable. He Cricketer Kevin Pietersen. at Raisina Dialogue here.
Russia after many years of warnings said the West has to share power. He said that increasingly around Pietersen referred to the Rus-
started to defend itself, there is noth- “The trouble with the UN Secu- the world when countries are worried sia-Ukraine conflict, COVID-19 pan-
ing except Ukraine. “It’s a shame and rity Council reform, which of course about whether they have to choose demic and geopolitical tensions and
this policy would fail. If they say this is should happen...it’s absurd to think between the USA and China, “I think said the world is at the moment is a
existential for them, it is existential for that India is not a permanent mem- India is a country seen by many as an scary place.
us,” he added. ber but you could say that about other objective friend”. “Cricket is an issue because Chi-
Meanwhile, noting that the real countries as well,” Blair said. Kevin Pietersen said that “the na and America don’t play cricket.
challenge today is how to make sense “But leave aside that because the war, conflict and pandemic have made Russia definitely doesn’t play cricket.”
of the shifting geo-politics, former problem always with reforming the the world a scary place”. He said that he said in a lighter vein.

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