On Thursday, December 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin will arrive in Delhi for summit discussions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi the following day. The conference, an annual occurrence before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, will be place in New Delhi on Friday, December 5.
The agenda includes a number of agreements, including as strengthening defense cooperation and shielding trade from US sanctions.
Putin's spokesperson, Dimitri Peskov, stated in a Kremlin media brief that Russia plans to utilize the meeting to shield trade relations with India from the sanctions imposed by the administration of US President Donald Trump. Apart from that, a vital defence contract between New Delhi and Moscow has also been okayed by the Russian Parliament.
This is all the information regarding Vladimir Putin's visit to New Delhi and the Summit's agenda.
All about Vladimir Putin's New Delhi visit| 5 points
Russian President Vladimir Putin will land in New Delhi on Thursday, December 4, to kick start his India visit. The annual India-Russia summit meetings between him and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take place on Friday, December 5. This will be Putin’s first visit to India since the start of the invasion of Ukraine.
Measures to insulate India-Russia commerce from sanctions imposed by the US, an offer on small modular reactors for nuclear energy and deepening of defence cooperation will be on the agenda at the summit between PM Modi and President Putin.The summit is being considered as an opportunity for India to highlight its strategic autonomy by reinvigorating defence and commercial ties with Russia, despite the backdrop of pressure from the US to cut purchases of Russian energy and military equipment.
Negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) between India and the Eurasian Economic Union, a five-member bloc that includes Russia, started last week and are anticipated to address New Delhi's concerns about tariff and non-tariff trade barriers, according to officials of the external affairs ministry. The two sides have finalized an agreement for the mobility of skilled and semi-skilled labor.
Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, on Tuesday ratified the Reciprocal Exchange of Logistic Support (RELOS) signed on February 18, between the two administrations. "We cherish our strategic and all-encompassing relationships with India. Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin stated during the house's plenary session, "We recognize that today's ratification of the agreement is another step toward reciprocity and, of course, the development of our relations."