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India, Lavrov: "We are trying to stop the war started by Ukraine", the Delhi audience laughs

The words of the Russian Foreign Minister that made the room noise at the Raisina Dialogue conference. The war "influenced, influenced, influenced" repeats the politician three times interrupted by screams and laughter

04/03/2023

He was unable to finish the sentence on the sidelines of the G20 ministerial meeting in New Delhi because he was interrupted by the laughter of the audience present at the Raisina Dialogue, the multilateral conference that has been held annually in India since 2016 and in which Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is also participating. "We are trying to stop the war unleashed against us using Ukraine," are the words that elicited the reaction. Loud laughter and shouts interrupted the Russian Foreign Minister who tries to keep the thread of the speech by repeating three times the war has influenced ("Influenced, influenced, influenced") Russian policy including energy policy. The reference is to the choices made by what were once Moscow's main trading partners, the Western countries that bought gas and oil from the Kremlin.