India, Russia plan Modi-Putin summit meet this year
Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin may be in pipeline this year.
The venue and timings of the meeting are yet to be finalised while the two sides are in touch to finalise they meet, ET has learnt.
The two last met at Samarkand in 2022 on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit sidelines.
Earlier in 2021 Putin travelled to India to meet Modi for their last structured Summit.
The two have spoken over phone several times since last year as India-Russia trade have touched a record high. Last week Putin lauded the recent G20 summit hosted by India as an unconditional success of Modi as the PM was able to depoliticise decisions at the mega event.
«PM Modi was able to depoliticise the decisions adopted at the G20 and that was the right way. G20 was created to discuss economic issues, not political ones. Indian leadership prevented politicisation and it was a success,» Putin said at key foreign policy forum Valdai Club in Sochi last week.
India had pushed to make the G20 summit under its presidency an economic forum. References to the Russia-Ukraine war in the leaders' declaration were watered down compared to the Bali declaration of 2022.
Speaking at the Valdai Forum Putin had also said the Indian leadership was «acting independently in the interest of the nation» and backed India for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council.
«They (the west) are trying to create an enemy out of everyone who is unwilling to blindly follow the western elites. Anyone is at risk, including the People's Republic of China, and at a certain point, India could become that. The Indian leadership is acting independently in the interest of its nation,» said Putin.
