Jaishankar To Meet Lavrov, Co-Chair India-Russia Trade Commission In Moscow
Jaishankar and Lavrov will lead India-Russia trade talks.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will undertake a two-day official visit to Moscow on August 23 and 24 to hold discussions with Russian officials on bilateral relations, trade, investment and other areas of cooperation. During the visit, Jaishankar will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for talks expected to cover regional and global developments.
Jaishankar will also co-chair the 27th session of the India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation, known as IRIGC-TEC. He will lead the Indian side alongside Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov, at whose invitation the External Affairs Minister is visiting Russia.
The meeting is expected to focus on strengthening cooperation in trade, economic relations, investment, science, technology and cultural exchanges. The commission serves as an institutional mechanism for reviewing bilateral cooperation and identifying areas for further engagement between the two countries.
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India and Russia have maintained a longstanding strategic partnership covering political, security, defence, trade, science and technology, culture and people-to-people ties. The relationship gained a new institutional framework after the two countries signed the Declaration on the India-Russia Strategic Partnership in October 2000, with regular dialogue mechanisms established at both political and official levels.
The India-Russia Intergovernmental Commission has two divisions. The IRIGC-TEC focuses on trade, economic, scientific, technological and cultural cooperation and is co-chaired by Jaishankar and Manturov. The second division, dealing with military and military-technical cooperation, is headed by the defence ministers of the two countries.
The Ministry of External Affairs has described India-Russia ties as stable and longstanding, with cooperation extending beyond traditional areas such as defence, nuclear energy and space. The partnership also reflects the two countries' shared emphasis on a multipolar international order and their efforts to broaden economic, technological and other areas of engagement.
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