Chinese president Xi Jinping, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, and Russian president Vladimir Putin meet in Goa in 2016. Modi is to meet Putin in Russia on 8 July. Chinese president Xi Jinping, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, and Russian president Vladimir Putin meet in Goa in 2016. Modi is to meet Putin in Russia on 8 July.
Russia has had strong ties with India since the cold war, and Delhi’s importance as a key trading partner for Moscow has grown since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. India and China have becomeThe partnership between Moscow and Delhi has become fraught, however, since Russia started developing closer ties with India’s main rival, China, because of the hostilities in Ukraine.
Modi sent his foreign minister to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization at its annual meeting in Kazakhstan’s capital of Astana. The meeting is being attended by Putin and Chinese president Xi Jinping. Modi last visited Russia in 2019 for an economic forum in the far eastern port of Vladivostok. He last travelled to Moscow in 2015. Putin last met with Modi in September 2022 at a summit of the SCO in Uzbekistan. In 2021, Putin also travelled to Delhi and held talks with the Indian leader.