Ushakov emphasized the significance of the meeting between the two leaders given that India will preside over the UN Security Council in December and the SCO in 2023.
Digital Desk: On Friday in Uzbekistan, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to meet. The
two presidents want to start trade negotiations and talk about the
"saturation" of the Indian market on the fringes of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization (SCO).
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
is an intergovernmental organization with eight member states (China, India,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan); four
Observer States (Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran, and Mongolia); and six Dialogue
Partners at the moment (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and
Turkey).
15 international leaders, including Chinese
President Xi Jinping, will attend the meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on
September 15 and 16. PM Modi is one of them.
According to a Kremlin handout, "there
are plans to discuss concerns about the "saturation" of the Indian
market with Russian fertilizers and bilateral food supply." The situation
in the Asia-Pacific region as well as bilateral cooperation in the G20 and UN
will be topics of discussion between PM Modi and President Putin.
Russian news agency TASS quoted President
Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov as saying, "A conversation on the international
agenda with (Indian PM) Modi will also take place, and the sides will discuss
issues of strategic stability, the situation in the Asia-Pacific Region, and,
of course, cooperation within major multilateral formats, such as the UN, the
G20, and the SCO."
Ushakov emphasized the significance of the
meeting between the two leaders given that India will preside over the UN
Security Council in December and the SCO in 2023.
"This is especially important because
India will preside over the UN Security Council in December, and India will
lead the SCO while also chairing the G20 in 2023," said the Russian
President's Aide.
It should be mentioned that this will be the
first gathering since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in February 2022. The
ministry of external affairs said that PM Modi called Putin when military
exercises were taking place in Kyiv. He pleaded with the leader of the Kremlin
for an urgent end to the violence in the nations of eastern Europe.
Additionally, it was crucially important at the time to protect the lives of
the more than 20,000 Indian students studying in Ukraine.
The conference takes place as Moscow
struggles under severe international and bilateral sanctions, mainly from the
West, as a result of the Kremlin's military incursions into Ukraine.
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