U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken alongside counterparts from India, Japan, and Australia on Friday issued a statement following their meeting in New Delhi, condemning Russia's attempts to wage aggression with impunity.
The so-called Quad group also declared that the deployment or even mere suggestion of nuclear weapons in Ukraine is completely "inadmissible."
Blinken said; "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.”
A day earlier in New Delhi, Blinken met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for the first time since the conflict in Ukraine began just over a year ago.
During the brief encounter, Blinken urged Russia to end the war and reverse its suspension of the New START nuclear treaty.
The Quad ministers also took a barely disguised swipe at China by denouncing actions that increase tensions in the South China Sea.
Quadri Adejumo covers World News, Health, Climate & Humanitarian.
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