For a Peaceful World

Palak Gupta

Making its premise clear on the ongoing India-China border issue in Eastern Ladakh (Western Theatre) of the Line of Actual Control (LAC), Russia has ruled out the need of any ‘outside help’, expressing confidence that the two Asian giants are committed to ‘peaceful resolution of (their bilateral) disputes’.

Defence secretary Ajay Kumar meeting the Russian deputy defence minister Alexander Vasilyevich Fomin in Moscow

“I do not think that India and China need any help from the outside. I do not think they need to be helped, especially when it comes to country issues. They can solve them on their own, it means the recent events,” Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press briefing after concluding the Russia, India and China (RIC) trilateral foreign ministers’ meeting held virtually on 23 June 2020.

The Kremlin is also hopeful that the situation (between India and China) will be peaceful and that the two countries will remain committed to peaceful resolution of disputes. “They started meetings at the level of defence officers, foreign ministers and neither of the two sides made any statements which would indicate that any of them would pursue non-diplomati