Russia Supports India: There is always discussion about the relations between India and Russia and both the countries are seen standing with each other on many issues. In this sequence, Russia has once again supported India’s permanent membership in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). On Wednesday (December 27), Russia said that it supports India’s aspirations to become a permanent member of the UNSC.
Along with this, Russia praised India’s success in dealing with controversial issues in the G20 summit and called it a true victory of India’s foreign policy. Actually, Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar is on a tour of Russia these days and he met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and discussed many issues. After this came the statement of Sergei Lavrov.
What did Sergei Lavrov say?
“We support India’s candidature to join the UN Security Council as a permanent member,” Sergei Lavrov said after talks with his counterpart S Jaishankar. He further said that the G20 summit held in New Delhi earlier this year was “a true victory of India’s foreign policy, it was a victory of multilateral diplomacy, which was possible to a decisive extent.”
In fact, at the G20 summit, India was successful in bringing together countries with completely different views on Ukraine. The G20 declaration avoided direct criticism of Russia for its war in Ukraine, so it was hailed as an important diplomatic victory for host India.
Lavrov also praised Make in India initiative
Lavrov also said that Russia is ready to start production of modern weapons under the ‘Make in India’ initiative. According to the state news agency ‘Tas’, Lavrov said that they discussed the prospects for military-technical cooperation between Russia and India, including joint production of modern weapons.
Lavrov said, ‘Concrete progress has been made in this matter.’ He said that Russia understands India’s initiative and is ready to support it. He said, ‘Under the Make in India programme, goods used for military purposes are to be produced. We are ready to cooperate in this regard.”
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