| India looking for partners, not preachers: Jaishankar's message to Europe | | | AGENCIES
NEW DELHI, May 4: Europe must display some sensitivity and mutuality of interest for deeper ties with India, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Sunday, asserting that New Delhi is looking for partners and not "preachers". In an interactive session, Jaishankar said India always advocated the "Russia realism" and there is an "important fit" and "complementarity" between India and Russia as a resource provider and consumer.
The external affairs minister also criticised earlier attempts by the West to find a solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict without involving Russia, saying it "challenged the basics of realism".
"Just like I am an advocate of Russia realism, I am also an advocate of America realism," he said at the 'Arctic Circle India Forum'.
"I think the best way to engage today's America is also through finding mutuality of interests rather than putting ideological differences upfront and then allowing it to cloud the possibilities of working together," he said.
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