Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the BRICS summit to be held in Kazan next month. Putin made this proposal during a meeting with National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval in St. Petersburg on Thursday.
The Putin-Doval meeting took place nearly three weeks after Modi’s visit to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky. The BRICS summit will be held in the Russian city of Kazan on October 22-24. Prime Minister Modi may attend this summit.
I have come to give you PM’s message- Doval
In a face-to-face conversation with Putin, Doval tells Russian President Putin, ‘As Prime Minister Modi had spoken to you over the telephone, he was keen to give you information about his visit to Ukraine and his meeting with President Zelensky. He wanted me to personally and specifically go to Russia and meet you and tell you about that conversation. The conversation took place in a very close format. There were only two leaders in it. He had two people with him. I was with the Prime Minister. I am a witness to this conversation.’
A statement issued by Russia on the Putin-Doval meeting said that the Russian President proposed holding a bilateral meeting with Modi on October 22 on the sidelines of the BRICS summit to “summarize the results of joint work” on the implementation of agreements reached during the Indian leader’s visit to Moscow and to outline prospects for the near future.
Putin said this
During this, Putin said, “I remember very well, as I already said in our general meeting, PM Modi’s visit to Moscow was not only very successful, but the work started following its results is also very meaningful and is happening at exactly the pace we agreed with the Prime Minister. Our special privileged strategic partnership is progressing in a brilliant and strong way, which we are happy about.”
Russian media statement
“We are waiting for our good friend Modi and wish him all the best,” Russian media quoted Putin as saying during his meeting with Doval. The NSA on Wednesday held wide-ranging talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu and discussed important issues of “mutual interests”.
In his talks with Zelensky, Modi had said that both Ukraine and Russia should sit together without wasting time to end the war and that India is ready to play an “active role” in restoring peace in the region.
Modi’s nearly nine-hour visit to Ukraine was the first by an Indian prime minister since that country’s independence in 1991. It came six weeks after his summit with Putin in Moscow.
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