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NEW DELHI: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepares to depart for
Kazan
for the Brics summit, the government reiterated its position that it’s important to return to dialogue and diplomacy to ensure the
Gaza conflict
doesn’t spread to the wider
West Asia
region.
The situation in Gaza and
Iran-Israel tensions
are likely to dominate the international agenda of the summit with both Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian and Palestine’s leader
Mahmoud Abbas
attending the event.
Modi is likely to have a
bilateral meeting
with the Iranian President on Tuesday. He will begin his official engagements in Kazan with a bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Our stance on West Asia has been consistent and firm over a long period of time. We have explicitly condemned acts of terrorism and at the same time, as the conflict has grown and, in a sense, expanded, we have called for a cease-fire, and release of hostages,” said foreign secretary
Vikram Misri
.
“Also for guarding against an expansion of the conflict that would pull more and more actors and make the issue more complicated to resolve, it is important to get back to dialogue and diplomacy,” he added.
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