According to Russian News Agency reports on August 24, Russian President Putin met with visiting Indian Foreign Minister Sujith Reddy at the Kremlin on that day. Both sides positively evaluated the economic and trade relations between Russia and India, and discussed deepening cooperation in various fields such as nuclear energy and high technology. The two leaders expressed their hope to hold meetings through the platform of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Putin stated that Russia and India are cooperating in almost all areas, and the two countries will continue to maintain cooperation at the economic, government, and parliamentary levels. He pointed out that trade between Russia and India has increased this year, and Russia is willing to further increase its exports of fertilizers to India in order to address the shortage of fertilizers in Indian agriculture.
Putin said that Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Manturov discussed many important issues with Sujeeson on that day. "Issues related to nuclear energy and high technology are on the Russian-Indian agenda and are being progressed steadily."
August 24th, Moscow, Russia. Russian President Putin met with Indian Foreign Minister Sajid Khan. IC photo
Su Jiesheng conveyed the greetings of Indian Prime Minister Modi to Putin. He noted that there has been significant progress in economic cooperation between India and Russia, and India hopes to further deepen cooperation in areas such as economics, nuclear energy, and fertilizers.
Regarding the meeting between the leaders of the two countries, Putin said he hopes to meet with Modi within the next few days as planned under the SCO framework. Su Jiesheng expressed that Modi is looking forward to meeting with Putin during the SCO summit and hopes that Putin will attend this year's BRICS summit held in India.
According to data released by the Russian government, in the first half of this year, bilateral trade between Russia and India increased by 8%. Both imports and exports showed positive growth trends. Manturov stated on the 24th that both countries are working to increase trade volume and diversify their trade structures. Russia aims to expand exports of agricultural products, machinery, metals, and forest products, while importing from India goods such as pharmaceuticals, industrial raw materials, components, and light industrial products.
