Biden, Modi discuss Ukraine war after PM’s visit, situation in Bangladesh

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Biden, Modi discuss Ukraine war after PM’s visit, situation in Bangladesh

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hand with U.S. President Joe Biden ahead of the G20 Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi on September 9, 2023. 

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U.S. President 

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 and Indian Prime Minister 

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 on Monday discussed the 

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 following Modi’s 

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 to Ukraine, along with the situation in Bangladesh where protests led to the ousting of former leader 

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 earlier this month.

Modi posted online that he discussed the situation in Ukraine with Biden over the phone and “reiterated India’s full support for early return of peace and stability.” He also said the two leaders stressed “the need for early restoration of normalcy, and ensuring the safety and security of minorities, especially Hindus, in Bangladesh.”

The White House issued a 

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, saying Biden commended Modi’s recent visit to Poland and Ukraine, and that both leaders expressed “support for a peaceful resolution of the conflict in accordance with international law, on the basis of the UN Charter.”

Last week, Modi visited Ukraine in the first visit by an Indian prime minister in modern Ukrainian history. It came at a volatile juncture in the war launched by Russia in February 2022. Moscow is making slow gains in eastern Ukraine as Kyiv presses a cross-border incursion.

Modi urged President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to sit down for talks with Russia to end the war and offered to help bring peace.

Modi’s Ukraine visit followed a visit he made to 

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 where he embraced President Vladimir ****** on the same day that a deadly Russian missile strike hit a children’s hospital. That visit angered Ukraine and the U.S. State Department said it 

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 with India about ties with Russia.

Moscow has been a large weapons supplier to India since the ******* Union days. Washington in recent years has looked to 

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 to counter China’s influence.

Modi said the two leaders also discussed the 

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 where about 300 people, many of them university and college students, were ******* during protests that began in July with students agitating against quotas in government jobs before the events spiraled into demonstrations to oust long-serving former Prime Minister Hasina.

An interim government headed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus was sworn in after Hasina fled to India. Attacks were reported against *******-majority Bangladesh’s minorities, especially Hindus, amid the protests.

Hindu nationalist Modi’s own government in Hindu-majority India 

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 over the years over attacks on minorities, especially Muslims.

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