Delhi’s Shift on Ukraine Peace Process: From ‘Two Parties’ to ‘Parties Concerned’

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The US and Russian delegations, led by their Foreign Ministers, met in Riyadh this week to discuss the path to end the war, Ukraine wasn’t at that table. In a significant diplomatic development, the United States and Russia held discussions in Riyadh this week to explore pathways to end the ongoing war in Ukraine. However, Ukraine itself was notably absent from the negotiation table. This meeting raises questions about the future of peace efforts, the role of global powers in conflict resolution, and the implications of excluding 

Ukraine from critical discussions about its  FACED with the new geo-political reality of US-Russia direct talks on Ukraine and the rapidly changing contours of the US-Europe trans-Atlantic alliance, India has nuanced its position on the war: moving from “two parties to the conflict” to “parties concerned”. 
 The US and Russian delegations, led by their Foreign Ministers, met in Riyadh this week to discuss the path to end the war, Ukraine wasn’t at that table. This has rattled Europe as it upends US policy under the Biden administration that had said that nothing on Ukraine will be done without Ukraine being part of the negotiations.
 In the light of the changed circumstances, India’s position was articulated by External Affairs minister S Jaishankar late Thursday hours after his meeting with Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov. “Regarding the Ukraine conflict, we have long advocated dialogue and diplomacy. Today, the world expects that parties concerned deal with each other to end the war.
” He was speaking at the G20 Foreign Ministers meeting in Johannesburg in South Africa on the global geo-political situation.
This is a shift from what Pavan Kapoor, the Indian representative at the Peace summit on Ukraine organised by Switzerland, had said on June 16, 2024. Kapoor, then Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs and now Deputy NSA, had said, 
“We continue to believe that such a peace requires bringing together all stakeholders and a sincere and practical engagement between the two parties to the conflict… Accordingly, we will continue to engage with all stakeholders as well as the two parties to the conflict to contribute to all earnest efforts to achieve lasting peace in Ukraine.”
Jaishankar’s statement Thursday doesn’t mention the “two parties to the conflict” — which is Russia and Ukraine. And only talks about “parties concerned.” This is a much broader term and which can include the US as well, with or without Europe. 
 Earlier, too there was a reference to stakeholders, but the insistence of the “two parties to the conflict” was explicit. Sources said this is acknowledgement of the new geopolitical realities that New Delhi is confronted with and the imperative for diplomatic space as it navigates its way through this change.


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