Ambassador Kudashev: Russian President Putin will conclude agreements with India on defense and space
India on December 6, the countries will conclude treaties in the spheres of defense, space, transport, science and technology and education. The main goals of the Russian leader's trip were named by the Russian ambassador to New Delhi Nikolai Kudashev, TASS reports.
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The diplomat emphasized that this is not a complete list of bilateral agreements being prepared between Moscow and New Delhi. According to him, agreements in the field of military-technical ties are also possible. According to the ambassador, it became known that a large-scale political statement will be made following the results of the Russian-Indian summit.
“This will be a document of great importance, covering almost all aspects of bilateral relations,” Kudashev noted. According to him, the statement will reflect the directions of international cooperation, the UN agenda, the issues of reforming this organization and the settlement of regional conflicts.
Kudashev also announced that on December 6, talks will be held between President Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, meetings Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation and India Sergey Lavrov and Subramaniyam Jaishankar, as well as Defense Ministers of both countries Sergey Shoigu and Rajnath Singh and a meeting of the intergovernmental commission on military and military-technical cooperation.
The Russian Ambassador noted the complexity of the situation in which the summit meeting. According to him, the conditions of the pandemic and the emergence of a new omicron strain of coronavirus are aggravated by the situation on the Russian-Ukrainian border and other provocations by opponents of the common space of interaction from Lisbon to Vladivostok.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking about confrontational schemes The United States in the Asia-Pacific region noted the importance of the RIC troika (Russia, India, China). According to the minister, Moscow, New Delhi and Beijing continue to advocate for the democratization of international relations.