Tribune News Service
New Delhi, 16 December
A Kremlin official has suggested that Prime Minister Narendra Modi may meet Chinese President Xi Jinping along with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the “near future”.
A summit of Russia, India and China could happen in the near future, Yuri Ushakov, an aide of the Russian President, was quoted by Russian news agency Tass as saying.
Significantly, his comments came less than a fortnight after Putin made a rare foreign trip during the pandemic to hold discussions with PM Modi.
“The topic of cooperation was addressed in a Russia-India-China format,” a Kremlin spokesman said while speaking on the virtual meeting between Putin and Xi. “The leaders agreed to continue to exchange views in this regard and try to hold the next summit within the RIC framework in the near future,” Ushakov said.
“Putin informed Xi Jinping about his visit to New Delhi on 6 December in this context,” he said.
The last meeting of the three leaders under the RIC format was in June 2019 on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka.