By Jennifer Hansler, CNN
U. S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that China and India’s concerns about Russia’s war in Ukraine generate global apprehension over the months-long conflict, saying he believes it “increases pressure on Russia to end aggression. “
“I think seeing is just a manifestation of the fact that this aggression has been an attack on the interests of other people across the planet,” Blinken said at a state branch news conference.
While the West has worked to isolate Vladimir Putin from his country’s invasion of Ukraine, the Russian president has more for countries like China.
However, at an assembly Thursday with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Putin expressed Beijing’s “questions and concerns” regarding the war, which Russia continues to call a “special army operation. “
And in a surprising rebuke on Friday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had remained silent on the issue, told the Russian president that “the current era is one of war. “
“We have spoken to him several times on the phone about the fact that democracy, international relations and discussion are all those things that the world has,” Modi told Putin in Uzbekistan.
Putin quoted through the Kremlin as saying to the Indian leader: “I know your position in relation to the confrontation in Ukraine, your considerations that you express continuously. We will do everything we can to make sure this is all over as soon as possible. “
U. S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said Friday that she believes the moscow-Beijing appointments are of “convenience, not necessarily an appointment to accept as true or a date that will combine their efforts on all things. “
“It’s not a complete marriage in both senses, form and form, yet they’re definitely going to paint together, but they’re also going to paint to get the advantages of both,” Sherman said in a verbal exchange with Washington Post Live.
“It was quite attractive for President Putin to say that he knew Xi Jinping was involved in what he was doing in Ukraine,” he said. “Very attractive for Putin to say that. “
Sherman said she is “confident that Xi Jinping is seeking merit as Russia continues its unprovoked, premeditated and terrifying invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign country. “
“Xi Jinping has talked about sovereignty and territorial integrity, so he has no compatibility with the principles he needs for his own opinions, be it Hong Kong, Tibet or Taiwan,” he said.
Blinken said Friday that the Russian war is “an aggression not only against Ukraine and its people, it is an aggression against the very principles of foreign relations that contribute to the maintenance of peace and security. “
He said the war in Ukraine is a violation of the UN charter, calling Russia “the number one violator of the charter now. “
“And of course, all the effects this has, including, for example, food insecurity. We have spent a lot of time, a lot of attention in recent months looking at how to deal with the demanding food security situations that have been dramatically exacerbated by Russia’s aggression. We already had Covid, we already had climate change that had profound effects on food insecurity. Add to this conflict, we now have more than two hundred million other people suffering from severe food insecurity,” Blinken said.
“This is anything that the leaders of countries around the world feel because their other people feel it. And I think it increases the pressure on Russia to end the aggression,” he said.
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CNN’s ULIANA Pavlova and Rishabh Pratap contributed to this report.
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