Russian President Vladimir Putin is about to go to India and the dates for his journey are being finalised, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov stated Tuesday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had invited Putin to go to India when the 2 leaders held summit-level talks in Moscow in July this 12 months. Modi had additionally visited Russia in October for the BRICS Summit in Kazan.
“We welcomed Prime Minister Modi twice this 12 months and we hope that quickly we’ll work out the dates of the go to of President Putin to India,” Peskov stated throughout his video tackle at an occasion in New Delhi organised by state-owned Sputnik information company.
This will probably be Putin’s first go to to India within the wake of the Russia-Ukraine struggle that began in February 2022. The announcement comes days after the election of US President Donald Trump, who can also be anticipated to go to India subsequent 12 months for the Quad Summit.
Putin’s India go to will come as a part of a laid-down construction between the 2 nations for reciprocal annual visits by their leaders. Whereas thanking President Putin “for the gracious hospitality prolonged to him and his delegation in Moscow for the twenty second India-Russia Annual Summit in July this 12 months, PM Modi invited him to go to India in 2025 for the twenty third India-Russia Annual Summit,” in keeping with a press release earlier by the Ministry of Exterior Affairs.
On Tuesday, Peskov stated, “India and Russia have a relationship of a particular privilege (Strategic Partnership), we’ve a shared imaginative and prescient of the particular nature of our bilateral relationship.”
He stated “the commerce and financial cooperation quantity (between the 2 nations) is actually booming”. In 2022, he stated, commerce figures crossed $35.3 billion, recording a pointy rise in 2023 at $56.7 billion, whereas the primary half of 2024 has already touched $30 billion and is predicted to cross the $60-billion mark.
Final week, Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov additionally visited India to carry key discussions on bilateral and world points with the Indian management. Manturov participated within the plenary session of the Russian-Indian Enterprise Discussion board in Mumbai, which focussed on increasing financial and enterprise cooperation between the 2 nations.
