"Will Be Talking About It": Boris Johnson On Prodding PM Modi On Russia
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Boris Johnson, who began his two-day visit to India from Gujarat, will meet PM Modi in Delhi on Friday.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday said he would be raising Russia's invasion of Ukraine in his talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he arrived in India touting job-creating investment but facing long odds to get his reluctant counterpart to back Western action against Moscow.
"Well, they (India) have already raised Ukraine. As you can imagine, with Prime Minister Modi. And actually, if you look at what the Indians have said, they were very strong in their condemnation of the atrocities in Bucha," Mr Johnson said during a visit to a factory in Gujarat.
"As I think everybody understands, India and Russia have historically very different a relationship, perhaps, than Russia and the UK have had over the last couple of decades. We have to reflect that reality, but clearly, I'll be talking about it to Narendra Modi," he added.
Mr Johnson arrived in Gujarat - PM Modi's home state and the ancestral home to half of the United Kingdom's British Indians - where he met business leaders and took a cultural tour of the historic Ahmedabad city.
