United Nations French President Emmanuel Macron told world leaders at the UN General Assembly session that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was right when he told Russian President Vladimir Putin that this is not the time for war.
\nModi, who met Putin last week on the sidelines of the 22nd meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Uzbekistan\u2019s Samarkand, had told the Russian leader that \u201ctoday\u2019s era is not of war\u201d.
\n\u201cNarendra Modi, the prime minister of India was right when he said the time is not for war. It is not for revenge against the West or for opposing the West against the East. It is the collective time for our sovereign equal states to cope together with challenges we face,\u201d Macron said during his address at the General Debate of the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.
\n\u201cThis is why there\u2019s an urgent need to develop a new contract between the north and the south \u2013 an effective contract which is respectful for food, for biodiversity, for education. It\u2019s no longer time for block thinking but to build a coalition of specific action to reconcile legitimate interests and common goods,\u201d he said.
\nIn Samarkand, Putin had told Modi that he knows his \u201cposition on the conflict in Ukraine and the concerns that you constantly express\u201d.
\n\u201cWe will do our best to make it stop as soon as possible. However, unfortunately, the opposing side, the leadership of Ukraine, announced that it was abandoning the negotiation process and declared that it wants to achieve its goals by military means, \u2018on the battlefield\u2019, as they say. Nevertheless, we will always keep you informed of what is happening there,\u201d Putin had said.
\nAt the UNGA session on Tuesday, Macron expressed hope the international community can commit to the reform of the UN Security Council \u201cso that it is more representative, welcome new permanent members and remain able to play its full role by restricting the use of veto in cases of mass crimes\u201d.
\nIn his address on the opening day of the General Debate, the French president said \u201cthere are countries that have chosen a form of neutrality vis-\u00e0-vis this war. Those who are saying that they\u2019re non-aligned are wrong. They are making a historic error\u201d.
\n\u201cThe combat of the non-aligned movement is a fight for peace. They fought for peace, the sovereignty of states and territorial integrity. Those who are keeping silent today are in a way complicit with a cause of new imperialism, a new order that is trampling over the current order, and there\u2019s no peace possible here.\u201d
\n\u201cRussia is today seeking to uphold a double standard but the war in Ukraine must not be a conflict that leaves anyone indifferent,\u201d Macron said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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