“Today’s era is not an era of war, and I have spoken to you on the phone about this,” Modi said to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in a televised meeting at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. External Affairs Minister, S. Jaishankar told a group of Indian reporters at a news conference in Washington that "Countries want to talk to us as there's a belief that we're in touch with key players, we can influence them, we're prepared, to say things that others cannot say, we've reached out to countries in a way, not be possible for everybody to do so."