‘Success Of Humanity Can’t Be Found On Battlefield’: PM Modi’s Peace Pitch At UN – News18

Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged for conflicts to be resolved at diplomatic levels instead of bloodshed on battlefields while addressing the UN Summit For The Future Summit in New York City.

“The success of humanity lies in our collective strength and not on the battlefield,” PM Modi said, who recently visited Kyiv and sent his national security advisor to Moscow on the sidelines of a multilateral summit, urging both sides to pursue a diplomatic solution to the Russo-Ukrainian conflict.

He remains the only leader to have spoken to both leaders, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and also urged them in-person to pursue a peaceful resolution to the conflict.

PM Modi is also among the leaders who have spoken to the Palestinian government led by Fatah and the Israeli government and have urged them to pursue a path of dialogue.

His remarks also come after his brief meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in New York and ‘reaffirmed India’s continued support to the people of Palestine’.

PM Modi had earlier spoken to Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu on two occasions. Shortly after the October 7 attacks, PM Modi told Netanyahu that ‘people of India stand firmly with Israel’ and condemned ‘terrorism in all its forms and manifestations’.

However, in a recent call in the month of August, he told the Israeli Prime Minister the need to de-escalate the situation.

India in the UN has backed the two-state solution to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict, while calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip and ensuring that civilian lives are protected as the war in the coastal enclave rages on, with the death toll of Palestinian civilians climbing.

PM Modi also said that terrorism ‘continues to be a serious threat to global peace and security’ and pointed out that ‘cyber security, maritime and space are emerging as new theatres of conflict’.

“I will stress that global action must match global ambition,” he said.