Quad members call Putin’s nuclear threats unacceptable
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a meeting of the Federal Security Service collegium in Moscow on Feb. 28, 2023.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats are not acceptable, foreign ministers of the “Quad” group — the U.S., Japan, Australia and India — said in a joint statement on Friday during the Group of 20 meeting of ministers in India.
“We continued to discuss our responses to the conflict in Ukraine and the immense human suffering it is causing, and concurred that the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is inadmissible,” the statement said.
The statement was a rare point of consensus between the U.S. and India on the Ukraine war. India’s government has so far refused to outright condemn Russia for the war. Moscow is a longtime ally and important trade partner to India.
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Russia cannot be allowed impunity for the war, Blinken says
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a press conference on the sidelines of the Group of 20 foreign ministers’ meeting in New Delhi on March 2, 2023.
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Russia has to be punished for its war in Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said after a meeting in New Delhi with foreign ministers of the “Quad” group, whose members are the United States, India, Japan and Australia.
“If we allow with impunity Russia to do what it’s doing in Ukraine, then that’s a message to would-be aggressors everywhere that they may be able to get away with it too,” Blinken said, speaking to a forum.
The meeting with Quad members came during the Group of 20 meeting in India of the world’s top 20 economies, where the war in Ukraine dominated discussions. Western officials urged other countries present to keep pressuring Russia, but a joint communique from the meeting condemning Russia’s war could not be agreed because of opposition from Moscow and Beijing. The…
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