Putin accepts Modi’s invitation to visit India: Russian FM Lavrov

 

 

 

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to visit India and preparations are underway for it, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday. In a video address to a conference titled“Russia and India: Toward a New Bilateral Agenda” hosted by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Lavrov said, “Arrangements are currently being made for Putin to visit India.”

 

“President Vladimir Putin has accepted an invitation to visit from the Indian head of Government. A visit by the Russian head of state to the Republic of India is currently being prepared,” the Russian Foreign Minister was quoted as saying by the state-run ‘TASS’ news agency. Lavrov noted that Prime Minister Modi’s first foreign visit after his re-election last year was to Russia. “Now it’s our turn,” he said. However, the dates of the visithavenotbeenrevealedyet. Prime Minister Modi visited Russia in July 2024, his first trip to the country in nearly five years. Earlier, he visited the far eastern city of Vladivostok in 2019 to attend aneconomicconclave.During thelastvisit,ModiinvitedPutin to visit India