India and the Netherlands are on the same page on invasion of Ukraine: Dutch minister

In an interplay, Hoekstra stated, “I’ve all the time discovered that the scenario international locations are in and the room that the international locations have are additionally decided by the place they’re on the globe, who their companions are, and what historic ties they’ve or won’t have.”

“I feel it’s not as much as me to guage from my nook on the earth what India ought to do or shouldn’t do,” he stated. “I cherish the friendship, I cherish the very clear messaging of (Exterior Affair) Minister (S) Jaishankar.”

“Additionally, on the problems that I discussed, I feel he and I are on the identical web page. On Ukraine, after we are speaking about rule of regulation, after we are speaking concerning the atrocities, after we are speaking about excessive significance that the worldwide neighborhood ought to connect to territorial integrity, you’ve different international locations. And I cherish this partnership and this friendship.”

Hoekstra stated: “Russia doesn’t pay any respect to worldwide regulation; to sovereignty and territorial independence of one other nation…completely brutal assaults on cities, troopers, but in addition on harmless civilians.”

He stated: “We now have seen essentially the most horrific pictures of girls being raped, youngsters being murdered… what we tried to do with our associates within the European Union, NATO is that, first particular person international locations tried to hunt to assist Ukraine with weapons as a European Union. We additionally will ensure that very powerful sanction packages are being utilized.”

On China, he stated: “We clearly see elevated Chinese language assertiveness in plenty of locations on the earth. Not within the least within the Indo-Pacific. And I feel it’s there’s a clear crucial for the world to ensure that every nation subscribe to rule of regulation, territorial integrity of others, respect geopolitical scenario.”