Moscow:
Russia is creating “privileged strategic partnership” with India, Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov stated on Monday.
Lavrov stated at an occasion that Russia is actively increasing ties with international locations like China, India, Iran, North Korea and Commonwealth of Impartial States (CIS) international locations, the state-run TASS information company reported on Monday.
“We prioritize boosting ties with nearly all of world states,” he stated at a gathering of the board of trustees of the Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund.
“The relations of complete partnership and strategic cooperation with the Individuals’s Republic of China boast an unprecedented degree of mutual belief. Significantly privileged strategic partnership is creating with India,” the highest Russian diplomat stated.
Lavrov added that severe progress has been reached in increasing and deepening of pleasant ties with such states as Iran and North Korea.
Moscow places particular emphasis on strengthening of all areas of cooperation with allies and companions amongst CIS member states, together with inside the framework of the Commonwealth, in addition to the Collective Safety Treaty Group and the Eurasian Financial Union, Lavrov stated.
In his congratulatory message to President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the event of India’s 76th Republic Day in January, Putin stated that Russian-Indian relations are based mostly on “particular and privileged strategic partnership”.
President Putin is anticipated to journey to India this 12 months as a part of the established framework for reciprocal annual engagements between the leaders of the 2 nations.
Putin and PM Modi preserve common contact, holding phone conversations as soon as each couple of months. The 2 leaders additionally maintain in-person conferences, notably on the sidelines of worldwide occasions.
In July final, Prime Minister Modi made a two-day go to to Moscow to attend the twenty second Russia-India summit. In October, he visited the Russian metropolis of Kazan for the BRICS summit.
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