NSA Ajit Doval holds wide-ranging discussions with Russian President Putin in Moscow

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to proceed working in the direction of implementing the strategic partnership between the 2 international locations.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 9, 2023 16:26 IST

The discussions between National Security Advisor Ajit Doval (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (proper) had been centered on bilateral and regional points. (Photo: Twitter/Embassy of India in Russia)

By Press Trust of India: National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday held wide-ranging discussions in Moscow and agreed to proceed working in the direction of implementing the strategic partnership between the 2 international locations.

The Indian embassy in Moscow mentioned the discussions had been centered on bilateral and regional points, however it didn’t elaborate on the problems.

“NSA Ajit Doval called on HE President Putin. Wide-ranging discussion on bilateral and regional issues. Agreed to continue work towards implementing the India-Russia strategic partnership,” the embassy tweeted.

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Doval started his two-day go to to Russia on Wednesday. On Monday, Russian Ambassador to New Delhi Denis Alipov mentioned Russia desires to additional diversify its relations with India.

The NSA’s go to to Russia got here three months after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar travelled to the nation throughout which the 2 sides vowed to increase their financial engagement together with India’s import of petroleum merchandise from its “time-tested” associate.

On Wednesday, Doval attended the fifth assembly of Secretaries of Security Councils/NSAs on Afghanistan which was hosted by Russia.

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In the assembly, Doval mentioned no nation needs to be allowed to make use of Afghan territory to export terrorism and asserted that India won’t ever abandon the individuals of Afghanistan of their time of want.

Besides Russia and India, the assembly was attended by representatives from Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Doval’s go to to Moscow comes weeks forward of the G-20 overseas ministers’ assembly in New Delhi.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is anticipated to journey to India to attend the assembly on March 1 and a pair of.

The ties between India and Russia remained robust however Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

India’s import of Russian crude oil has gone up considerably in the previous couple of months regardless of rising disquiet over it in lots of Western international locations.

India has not but condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine and it has been sustaining that the disaster have to be resolved via diplomacy and dialogue.

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Raajnandini Mukherjee

Published On:

Feb 9, 2023