India's Silence On Ukraine Crisis A Pity: Shashi Tharoor
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Russia is a friend and there could be some legitimate security concerns, but for India to go suddenly silent on it will be seen as a disappointment by Ukraine and its friends, said Shashi Tharoor.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor accused the government of going silent on the matter in the aftermath of the Russian military operation in Ukraine and said that "it is a pity."
Speaking to news agency ANI, Mr Tharoor said, "Russia is a friend and there could be some legitimate security concerns but for India to go suddenly silent on it will be seen as a disappointment by Ukraine and its friends. It's a pity that India has gone silent."
He further said that India has consistently upheld these principles -- the inviolability of sovereign borders and the inadmissibility of change through force and violence that countries are not supposed to go and achieve their objectives by invading other countries.
That's why diplomacy was invented and the importance of establishing the principle that no country has to right to conduct regime change in another country, he said.
