External Affairs Minister ♔S Jaishankar on Thursday claimed the relation between India and Russia to🦄 be amongst the steadiest ones in the world since the second World War.
He also add🐼ed that New Delhi was very keen to hosting President Vladimir Putin in 💮the country for the annual bilateral summit.
Jaishankar, delivering a speech on India-Russia ties in a changing world at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and Internat😼ional Relations here, said that this relationship is sometimes taken for granted.
“T💟he case for its constant nurturing” is powerful, he said.
“There’s no doꦑubt that relati🍷ons between India and Russia have been among the steadiest of the major relationships in the world after the second World War,” he said.
Russians will surely recall th𒅌e ups and downs in the ties with the USღ, Europe, China or Japan or Turkey and Iraq, the minister said.
“On their part, objective Indians would also recognise that this was theꦬ case 𓆉with them as well.
“Where India-Russia bilateral ties are concerned, there have been many changes, even issues from time to time. But at the end🤪 of the day, the logic of geo-politics was so compelling that we barely remember these even as minor aberrations,” Jaishankar said.
The unde𒁏niable reality ܫof the exceptional resilience of India-Russia ties is surely a phenomenon that is worth analysing, he said.
▨Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin have met 19 times since 2014, Jaishan🦄kar said.
“That itself speaks a lot,” he said.
“We, of course, look forward to hosting the President (Putin) in India for the annualꩲ bilateral summit,” Jaishankar added.
(With PTI Inputs)
