India has made regional cooperation its priority after "recent developments in Europe" put the stability of international order in question, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, referring to the war in Ukraine without naming Russia.
Modi was speaking via video at a virtual summit of the BIMSTEC, a bloc comprising seven South Asian and Southeast Asian nations. Sri Lanka is hosting a two-day meeting of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) to discuss economic cooperation. Besides India and Sri Lanka, BIMSTEC comprises Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Nepal and Bhutan.
“The recent developments in Europe