The Indian Foreign Ministry highly appreciated the results achieved during the Alaska summit.

India highly appreciated the results of the meeting of the leaders of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in Alaska, noting the progress in the dialogue between the two countries. This was announced on August 16 by the official representative of the Indian Foreign Ministry Randhir Jaiswal.

"India welcomes the Alaska summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Their leadership in achieving peace deserves to be highly appreciated," he said in a statement on his page on the social network X (ex. Twitter).

Jaiswal stressed that only dialogue and diplomacy can contribute to the way forward.

"The world wishes the conflict in Ukraine to end as soon as possible," the representative of the ministry stressed.

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On the same day, the leaders of European countries in a statement on the website of the Council of the European Union (EU) expressed support for Trump for his efforts to resolve the Ukrainian conflict and achieve peace. The statement notes the EU's readiness to work with Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky towards a trilateral summit. The leader of the French Patriots party, Florian Philippot, called the meeting of the two leaders in Alaska historic.

Putin's meeting with his American counterpart took place on August 15 in Anchorage, Alaska. Kirill Dmitriev, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Cooperation with Foreign Countries and head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), stressed that the dialogue between the leaders was positive and constructive.

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