Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov To Start 2-Day India Go to At the moment. (FILE)
New Delhi: Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov is ready to start his two-day bilateral go to to India from Monday, which is able to current a possibility to debate facets of bilateral ties and evaluate preparations for the pending India-Russia annual summit later this yr.
“On April 5-6, Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov can pay a working go to to India. In New Delhi, he’ll maintain talks with Exterior Affairs Minister,” Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar posted on Twitter earlier.
Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Arindam Bagchi stated the go to might be a singular alternative to debate vital facets of bilateral ties, additionally to evaluate preparations for the following India Russia annual summit and in addition maybe talk about regional and worldwide problems with mutual curiosity.
In line with a press release by the Russian Embassy in India, “The heads of the international affairs businesses will talk about the present state of bilateral relations, the preparation of the upcoming high-level assembly this yr, together with cooperation within the combat towards the pandemic, will take into account key matters on the regional, international agenda, assess approaches to the interplay between Russia and India on the worldwide area, together with on the UN, BRICS.”
“A particular and privileged strategic partnership with India is one in every of Russia”s international coverage priorities,” the assertion learn.
The 2 sides are creating an energetic political dialogue, commerce and financial, in addition to navy and technical ties, scientific, cultural, and humanitarian contacts, it stated.
“A substantial expertise of fruitful cooperation in a variety of areas has been gathered. The curiosity of the Indian enterprise within the Far East and different areas of Russia is rising,” the assertion added.
The official launch additionally said that the Russian international minister can also be set to implement the outcomes of the twentieth Russian-Indian summit held in September final yr, in Vladivostok.
“The heads of the Overseas Ministries of Russia and India will trade views on very important problems with the worldwide and regional agenda, together with interplay within the #UN, the #SCO, and #BRICS, which is chaired by India this yr, in addition to the #RIC. An vital set of matters associated to the state of affairs within the Asia-Pacific area and Afghanistan might be mentioned,” the assertion additional added.
The important thing spotlight of this bilateral meet is to share the identical imaginative and prescient of the mannequin of the rising polycentric world order, construct a strategic partnership amongst each side, and reforming international governance, and strengthening the UN”s central coordinating function in worldwide affairs.
After India, Mr Lavrov will go to Pakistan from April 6-7.
The Russian international minister’s go to to India comes as Overseas Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla visited the nation in February this yr the place he met Lavrov and mentioned wide-ranging Particular and Privileged Strategic Partnership between the 2 international locations and methods to additional strengthen it.
Mr Shringla had stated they mentioned some regional and worldwide problems with curiosity together with cooperation within the UN and UNSC the place India is a non-permanent member now.
