New Delhi [India], March 19 (ANI): The Vice Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Rainer Rudolph on Wednesday welcomed India's contribution to helping end the Russia-Ukraine war, calling it a 'war of aggression' by one UN member on another.

'Any contribution to peacefully end this war is welcome. This is not a conflict; this is a war of aggression by one member of the United Nations against another. It's these principles that have to be kept in mind when we talk about ending the war peacefully,' Rudolph told ANI on the sidelines of the Raisina dialogue in Delhi.

Affirming the need to protect Ukraine's territorial integrity, he added, 'It's important to remember that Ukraine's territorial integrity must be maintained, and it's the Ukrainians themselves who have to decide their country's destiny.'

Speaking on the recent address of the United States President J D Vance at the American Dynamism summit held on Tuesday (local time), Rudolph mentioned that even if he might not agree with Vance's message to Europeans, it still served as a 'wake up call' to the continent to develop a stronger foreign policy.

'Obviously he chose a public event to give his message to the Germans and to the Europeans beyond that, even if at first sight it was a domestic situation in Europe as he saw it, with which maybe I would not always agree with which he presented it but still it had a foreign policy effect because it served as a wake-up call to Europeans that we have to invest more in our security and develop a stronger European foreign policy,' he said.

Expressing confidence in developing US-Europe relations, he added, 'I think the relationship between Europe and the US will develop. JD Vance also said that, and the administration has since confirmed it. They are still committed to NATO and the alliance. The relationship is changing, and as far as we Europeans are concerned, we will have to contribute our share to common security.'

Earlier during the summit, Vance criticised the recent efforts to 'use cheap labour as a crutch' which hampers innovation across the global scale.

'Our workers, the populists, on the one hand, the tech optimists on the other, have been failed by this government,' Vance said, as reported by Fox News.

'Not just the government of the last administration, but the government in some ways of the last 40 years, because there were two conceits that our leadership class had when it came to globalization,' he added.

Saying how other nations are 'catching up' to the United States, Fox news reported Vance as saying, 'Now, we assume that other nations will always trail us in the value chain, but it turns out that as they got better at the low end of the value chain, they also started catching up on the higher end. We were squeezed from both ends. Now, that was the first conceit of globalization.' (ANI)