Russian President Vladimir Putin is acceptable to sojourn India and the dates for his travel are being finalised, Kremlin property caput Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had invited Putin to sojourn India erstwhile the 2 leaders held summit-level talks successful Moscow successful July this year. Modi had besides visited Russia successful October for the BRICS Summit successful Kazan.
“We welcomed Prime Minister Modi doubly this twelvemonth and we anticipation that soon we volition fig retired the dates of the sojourn of President Putin to India,” Peskov said during his video code astatine an lawsuit successful New Delhi organised by state-owned Sputnik quality agency.
This volition beryllium Putin’s archetypal sojourn to India successful the aftermath of the Russia-Ukraine warfare that started successful February 2022. The announcement comes days aft the predetermination of US President Donald Trump, who is besides expected to sojourn India adjacent twelvemonth for the Quad Summit.
Putin’s India sojourn volition travel arsenic portion of a laid-down operation betwixt the 2 countries for reciprocal yearly visits by their leaders. While thanking President Putin “for the gracious hospitality extended to him and his delegation successful Moscow for the 22nd India-Russia Annual Summit successful July this year, PM Modi invited him to sojourn India successful 2025 for the 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit,” according to a connection earlier by the Ministry of External Affairs.
On Tuesday, Peskov said, “India and Russia person a narration of a peculiar privilege (Strategic Partnership), we person a shared imaginativeness of the peculiar quality of our bilateral relationship.”
He said “the commercialized and economical practice measurement (between the 2 countries) is truly booming”. In 2022, helium said, commercialized figures crossed $35.3 billion, signaling a crisp emergence successful 2023 astatine $56.7 billion, portion the archetypal fractional of 2024 has already touched $30 cardinal and is expected to transverse the $60-billion mark.
Last week, Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov besides visited India to clasp cardinal discussions connected bilateral and planetary issues with the Indian leadership. Manturov participated successful the plenary league of the Russian-Indian Business Forum successful Mumbai, which focussed connected expanding economical and concern practice betwixt the 2 nations.