During the BRICS Foreign Ministers' meeting in South Africa's Cape Town on Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar and discussed the topical issues of the bilateral agenda, as well as international and regional problems, were discussed.
Secretary (West) Sanjay Verma visited Moscow on May 3-4 for the JWG on Counter Terrorism and India-Russia bilateral consultations on UN and multilateral issues, and held discussions, the Ministry of External Affairs said in an official release today.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has reached Goa to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's (SCO) foreign ministers' meeting, where he is scheduled to hold a bilateral with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar later today.
Manturov said, "Relations between Russia and India continue progressively developing in all directions. In 2022, despite negative external factors, positive dynamics in the Russian-Indian trade prevailed."
Jaishankar spoke about the expansion of the correspondent relationship network under International Trade Settlement in Indian Rupees through Special Rupee Vostro Account system.
"That's one of the issues which we just discussed with your colleague, so because of lack of input from India, it's not enough to use the Rupee so we need to boost the trade from India and then in this case we are looking at balance like for example, we have with China. We have USD 200 bi
On the first day of his visit, Manturov will co-chair the 24th India-Russia Inter-governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation (IRIGC-TEC)
The forum discussion started on March 29 and will continue till tomorrow March 30. The purpose of the meeting is to strengthen Indian-Russian business ties and support the entry of Russian companies into the Indian market.
A Parliamentary Delegation from Russia led by Alexander Babakov, Deputy Chairman, of State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation called on the Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha, Harivansh in Parliament House Complex on Wednesday.
"Profusion of analysis these days of the outcomes of Xi Jinping's Russia visit. The impression as though various reputable Indian experts almost dream of Russia-China ties harming Russia-India strategic alignment. A wishful thinking case in point," Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov tw
In response to a question on the three countries being among the 32 nations that abstained in Thursday's UN General Assembly, Lu responded, "It's clear to us that the countries of Central Asia and India have had long, complex relations with Russia".
Notably, last year, bilateral trade and economic cooperation between the two countries received a powerful impetus and mutual trade reached almost 30 billion US dollars.