Russian President Vladimir Putin prolonged “best wishes” to his “dear friend” Prime Minister Narendra Modi forward of him birthday on saturday The two leaders held talks on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s annual summit on Friday.
Prime Minister Modi, who attended the primary in-person summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in two years within the historic Uzbek metropolis of Samarkand, turned 72 on Saturday.
of their First assembly after Ukraine battle Broke in February this yr, Putin prolonged his greatest needs to India and Prime Minister Modi.
“I need to want India the perfect. I additionally know that tomorrow my expensive good friend, you’re going to have a good time your birthday. According to Russian custom, we by no means greet prematurely. So, I am unable to do this proper now, Putin stated.
“But I would like you to know that we are aware of it. And we wish you all the best. We wish the best for the friendly Indian nation and we wish India prosperity under your leadership,” stated the 69-year-old Russian President he stated.
Putin stated relations between Russia and India are creating very quickly and are within the nature of a strategically privileged partnership, including that the 2 nations are actively participating on worldwide platforms.
“Had a wonderful meeting with President Putin. We had the opportunity to discuss furthering India-Russia cooperation in trade, energy, defense and other areas. We also discussed other bilateral and global issues,” Modi stated with Putin. Tweeted about your assembly.
Modi arrived right here on Thursday evening on a virtually 24-hour tour.
The summit of the influential grouping of eight nations is going down amid rising geopolitical turmoil because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and China’s aggressive army stance within the Taiwan Straits.
Launched in Shanghai in June 2001, the SCO has eight full members, together with its six founding members, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. India and Pakistan joined as full members in 2017.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
