Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) that it has become a matter of embarrassment for him to oppose India’s stance on the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022. He said, ‘Due to the policy adopted, India is now in a situation where it can be helpful in establishing permanent peace’.
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said, ‘He also said that under the policy adopted by India, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi can embrace both Russia Vladimir Putin of Russia and Ukraine President Volodimir Jailnsky’. When Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022, Tharoor criticized India’s stance and called for Moscow to condemn the aggression of this move.
‘I am still trying to eliminate embarrassment’
In Raisina Dialogue, former Minister of State for External Affairs and Congress MP said, ‘I am still trying to end the embarrassment because during the parliamentary discussion I criticized India’s stand in February 2022. Lok Sabha member from Thiruvananthapuram Tharoor said, “His criticism was on the basis that the United Nations Charter was violated and the theory related to the encroachment of borders was violated.” The sovereignty of a member state called Ukraine was violated and India has always been opposed to the use of force to settle international disputes’.
Shashi Tharoor said, ‘All those principles were violated by one side and we should have condemned it. Well after three years, it seems that I am feeling embarrassed because this policy means that there is actually a Prime Minister in India who can embrace both the President of Ukraine and the President of Moscow Russia at two weeks intervals and both countries have acceptance ‘.
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