{"id":459651,"date":"2025-09-29T05:40:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/459651\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T05:40:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:40:30","slug":"russia-preparing-for-president-putins-visit-to-india-later-this-year-foreign-minister-lavrov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/459651\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia preparing for President Putin\u2019s visit to India later this year: Foreign Minister Lavrov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW DELHI<\/strong> \u2013 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Saturday said that Moscow is preparing for President Vladimir Putin\u2019s official visit to India, scheduled to take place later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, Lavrov said the visit is expected to happen in December and will focus on a wide-ranging bilateral agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn December, a visit from President Putin is being planned to New Delhi. We have a very extensive bilateral agenda\u2014trade, military-technical cooperation, finance, humanitarian matters, healthcare, high-tech, artificial intelligence, and, of course, close coordination at the international level within the SCO, BRICS, and bilaterally,\u201d Lavrov stated.<\/p>\n<p>He also informed about the diplomatic exchanges that will continue at the ministerial level, with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar expected to visit Moscow this year, while Lavrov will travel to India.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year, my colleague Subrahmanyam Jaishankar\u2014whom I spoke to yesterday\u2014will visit Russia, and I will visit India. We hold regular exchanges,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As tensions between India and the United States escalated over New Delhi\u2019s purchase of oil from Russia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov emphasized that India is \u201cperfectly capable\u201d of making its own decisions regarding trade relations, and stressed that Moscow does not interfere in India\u2019s sovereign choices.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has imposed tariffs on Indian goods as punishment for New Delhi\u2019s massive purchases of Russian oil, part of a campaign to pressure Moscow into ending its offensive in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Russia remains one of India\u2019s leading arms suppliers, with their strategic relationship dating back to the Soviet era.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t even ask our Indian colleagues what is going to happen to our trade relations or our oil cooperation. They are perfectly capable of making these decisions for themselves,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Asserting that economic partnership between India and Russia is \u201cnot under threat., the Russian Foreign Minister also praised India\u2019s stand on global issues, saying it reflects the country\u2019s \u201cself-respect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Referring to remarks previously made by Jaishankar on India\u2019s energy trade, Lavrov added: \u201cPublicly, my friend\u2014whom I referenced earlier\u2014when asked a similar question, said: \u2018If the US wants to sell their oil to us, we are prepared to discuss the terms\u201d But what we buy from other countries, not the United States, but from Russia or other countries, that\u2019s our own business. And that has nothing to do with the Indian-US agenda. And I believe that that is a very worthy response that shows that India, like Turkey, has self-respect.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI \u2013 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Saturday said that Moscow is preparing for President Vladimir&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[6218,730,154029,7475,332,96150,1201],"class_list":{"0":"post-459651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-geopolitics","9":"tag-india","10":"tag-national-affairs","11":"tag-region","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-the-statesman","14":"tag-trade"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115285984742707817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}