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The US would welcome any country interested in using its voice to further deter the Russian offensive in Ukraine and play a positive role in helping release hostages and defeating Hamas amid the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip, US State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel said at a press briefing on April 18. Asked how the US and the international community can use Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s influence to end the ongoing war worldwide, Patel said, “Specifically, first in the context of Russia-Ukraine, if any country is interested in using its voice to further deter Russian aggression on the people of Ukraine, we certainly would welcome that and in the current ongoing context in Gaza, any country that believes that they can play a positive role in helping us get to a release of hostages, helping us get additional humanitarian assistance into Gaza, and helping to defeat Gaza, they certainly should and are welcome to play that role.”
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on August 31 said that during the time of the landing of Chandrayaan-3, he was physically present at the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa but mentally he was in Bengaluru. He said, “At the BRICS summit, we were physically present there but we were mentally in Bengaluru because all the while, the thoughts in PM`s mind, in ours as well, was Chandrayaan. But that evening, there was only one topic of conversation, that topic of conversation was the Chandrayaan landing. The greatest satisfaction for me that day was this sense from all the leaders that India has done it.”
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