New Delhi: A few days before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s scheduled arrival in India, a controversy erupted over a joint article written by German and French ambassadors along with the British high commissioner. Published in The Times of India on December 1, the piece has not gone down well in diplomatic circles, with several former envoys saying the timing could not have been more provocative.

Titled ‘The world wants the Ukraine war to end, but Russia does not seem serious about peace’, the op-ed, which was authored by German Ambassador Philipp Ackermann, French Ambassador Thierry Mathou and British High Commissioner Lindy Cameron, immediately caught attention.

The opening lines itself set tone of the article. The three diplomats wrote that for more than three years, the people o

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