Russian Minister Wants To Deliver Message From Putin Personally To Modi

New Delhi: During his talks with Foreign Minister S Jaishankar on Friday, his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov said he wished to convey a “message personally” from President Vladimir Putin to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“The President (Putin) and the Prime Minister are in regular touch with each other and I will report to the President about my negotiations. He sends by the way his best regards to Prime Minister Modi and I would appreciate an opportunity to deliver this message personally,” the Russian Foreign Minister said.

He said the ties between the two countries were very strong.

“We have been able to find the balance that makes our relationship sustainable. We have had useful meetings as well as 2+2 talks. As far as I understand, we continue to implement projects in areas of energy, science, pharmaceuticals as we manage to fight COVID. You know our position on Ukraine, we do not hide anything and you must take our position in the entirety and not in a one-sided way,” he said.

“We are interested in having a balanced world order which makes it sustainable. These days our western colleagues would like to reduce any meaningful international issue to the crisis in Ukraine…We do not fight anything and we appreciated that India is taking this situation in the entirety of effect and not just one-sided way,” Lavrov said.