Vladimir Putin accepts PM Modi’s invitation to go to India, preparations underway: Russian FM Lavrov

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
| Picture Credit score: V.V. Krishnan

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to go to India and preparations are underway for it, Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov mentioned on Thursday (March 27, 2025).

In a video deal with to a convention titled “Russia and India: Towards a New Bilateral Agenda” hosted by the Russian Worldwide Affairs Council (RIAC), Mr. Lavrov mentioned, “Preparations are at present being made for Putin to go to India.” “President Vladimir Putin has accepted an invite to go to from the Indian head of presidency. A go to by the Russian head of state to the Republic of India is at present being ready,” the Russian Overseas Minister was quoted as saying by the state-run TASS information company.

Mr. Lavrov famous that Prime Minister Modi’s first overseas go to after his re-election final yr was to Russia.

“Now it’s our flip,” he mentioned.

Nonetheless, the dates of the go to haven’t been revealed but.

Prime Minister Modi visited Russia in July 2024, his first journey to the nation in almost 5 years. Earlier, he visited the far jap metropolis of Vladivostok in 2019 to attend an financial conclave.

Over the past go to, PM Modi invited Mr. Putin to go to India.

On March 24, Mr. Lavrov mentioned Russia is creating a “privileged strategic partnership” with India.

Mr. Lavrov mentioned at an occasion that Russia is actively increasing ties with international locations like China, India, Iran, North Korea and Commonwealth of Impartial States (CIS) international locations.

“The relations of complete partnership and strategic cooperation with the Individuals’s Republic of China boast an unprecedented degree of mutual belief. Significantly privileged strategic partnership is creating with India,” the highest Russian diplomat mentioned.

In his congratulatory message to President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Modi on the event of India’s 76th Republic Day in January, Mr. Putin mentioned that Russian-Indian relations are based mostly on “particular and privileged strategic partnership”.

Mr. Putin and PM Modi preserve common contact, holding phone conversations as soon as each couple of months. The 2 leaders additionally maintain in-person conferences, notably on the sidelines of worldwide occasions.