India’s foreign ministry said Modi invited Putin to New Delhi for the 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit later this year.
The two leaders “reaffirmed their commitment to further deepen the Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership between India and Russia”, the ministry said in a statement.
Modi also spoke with Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva by phone on Thursday, discussing a broad range of topics that included high tariffs imposed by the US.
Trade talks between India and the US collapsed after five rounds of negotiations over disagreement on opening India’s vast farm and dairy sectors and stopping Russian oil purchases.
Modi’s conversation with Putin also came a day after Russia and India stressed their commitment to a “strategic partnership” in bilateral security talks in Moscow between Indian National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and Sergei Shoigu, secretary of Russia’s Security Council.
Source: CNA
