President Volodymyr Zelensky is in favour of holding the second Peace Summit in a country of the Global South, and has offered to hold it in India. “I absolutely support and have shared the idea with Prime Minister Modi, to hold the Global Peace Summit in India. It is a great country, a great democracy”. (Zelensky in an interview with Indian media). He has also stated that negotiations were ongoing with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and Switzerland regarding holding of the second summit on peace.

President Zelensky has laid a term of reference that any country that would agree to host the Summit has to join the Summit by signing the communique of the Switzerland Ukraine Peace Conference as a precondition for hosting a second summit on peace. India did not sign the Summit communiqué having attended the Switzerland Ukraine first peace summit. This condition can likely be set aside if India can persuade China and Russia to attend if it decides to host the second Peace Summit. Zelensky said that he had discussed with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi all the issues of the communiqué of the first Peace Summit and all the issues that were discussed there.

The big Question is will India be willing to host? In my view India must take this opportunity to show to the world that India a peace-loving nation can be a world “Peace Maker”. However,........

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