{"id":42326,"date":"2022-03-10T14:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/10\/narendra-modi-walks-diplomacy-tightrope-with-vladimir-putin-on-ukraine"},"modified":"2022-03-10T14:00:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T05:00:04","slug":"narendra-modi-walks-diplomacy-tightrope-with-vladimir-putin-on-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42326","title":{"rendered":"Narendra Modi walks diplomacy tightrope with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Analysis:<\/strong> Indian PM is reliant on Putin\u2019s nation for arms and is conscious of shifting relations between Russia and its foe, China<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/ukraine-live\/latest\">Russia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, picked up the phone to Vladimir Putin this week \u2013 the latest in several phone calls between the two leaders since Russia invaded Ukraine \u2013 he put forward a suggestion.<\/p>\n<p>Modi\u2019s push, according to an Indian government statement, was that Putin should have a \u201cdirect conversation\u201d with the Ukrainian prime minister, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in order to \u201cgreatly assist ongoing peace efforts\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/10\/narendra-modi-walks-diplomacy-tightrope-with-vladimir-putin-on-ukraine\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Indian PM is reliant on Putin\u2019s nation for arms and is conscious of shifting relations between Russia and its foe, ChinaRussia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest newsAs the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, picked up the phone to Vladimir Putin this we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,221,62,419,61,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-india","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42327,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42326\/revisions\/42327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}