According to officials based in Paris and New Delhi, President Macron believes that India can play a positive role in ending the Ukraine war.
National Security Adviser Ajit Doval apprised French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday evening about Indian conversations with both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on how to end the war in Eastern Europe, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
Doval was expected to leave Paris on Tuesday after holding a strategic dialogue with Macron’s diplomatic adviser Emmanuel Bonne and meeting French defence minister Sebastian Lecormu and foreign minister Jean Noel Barrot.
It is understood that Doval had a fruitful meeting with the French President where both had a good discussion over geopolitics with the Ukraine war and the Israeli war against Hamas in Gaza and against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
According to officials based in Paris and New Delhi, President Macron believes that India can play a positive role in ending the Ukraine war as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has the trust of both President Putin and President Zelensky after discussing the issue with them in a number of meetings and phone calls.