Pm Modi: Respect territorial integrity, sovereignty of all: PM Modi at G7 | India News – Times of India

Addressing a G7 session in Japan’s Hiroshima on Sunday, PM Modi called into question the effectiveness of the UN and its Security Council. He said these global bodies would be reduced to acting merely like a “talk shop” if they didn’t address problems faced by the developing world and were unable to resolve conflicts.
Emphasising that tensions in any region affected all countries, particularly developing nations, in an interconnected world, Modi also called for respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries and for jointly opposing any attempt to unilaterally change the status quo anywhere.
While the PM did not name Russia or any other country, the remarks will likely be seen as a message to Moscow by the G7, which announced at the summit further tightening of sanctions imposed on Russia because of the Ukraine war.

PM: Why’s UN unable to end conflicts, define terrorism?
Making a case for UNSC reforms one more time, PM Modi sought to know why the UN was unable to prevent conflicts and why it hadn’t even been able to arrive at a definition of terrorism till now. “If we do an introspection, we will find that the institutions of the previous century are not suited to the arrangements of the 21st century. They don’t reflect the current realities,” Modi said at the G7 summit in Hiroshima on Sunday.
“This is why it’s important that reforms are carried out in institutions like the UN. They will have to speak for the Global South. Otherwise, we will keep discussing ways to end our struggle for years. UN and the Security Council will be reduced merely to a talk shop,” he added.

Modi reiterated his commitment before Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky that India would do whatever it could to end the war and said dialogue and diplomacy were the only way out of the current situation. Modi said India had always maintained that any conflict should be resolved peacefully and through dialogue, while recalling his remark before Zelensky that he saw the Ukraine war as an issue of humanity. “If there is a way out following the law, we must follow it. That’s how India resolved its own land and maritime boundary disputes with Bangladesh,” Modi said as he quoted Buddha to say that fighting enmity with enmity could not lead to peace.