{"id":267446,"date":"2022-12-09T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/?p=267446"},"modified":"2022-12-09T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T21:36:00","slug":"pm-modi-unlikely-to-visit-russia-this-year-for-annual-summit-with-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/12\/09\/pm-modi-unlikely-to-visit-russia-this-year-for-annual-summit-with-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi Unlikely To Visit Russia This Year For Annual Summit With Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Russian President Vladimir Putin had attended the summit in India last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is unlikely to travel to Russia this year for an annual bilateral summit between the two countries, sources have told NDTV.<\/p>\n

The G20 summit in Indonesia’s Bali was PM Modi’s last visit abroad this year, NDTV has learnt from government sources.<\/p>\n

With the last annual summit held in India in December last year – which saw Russian President Vladimir Putin travel to India for a six-hour visit – it was Russia’s turn this year to host the meeting.<\/p>\n

But now in its 11th month of the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has not proposed a summit and no dates have been announced as the year draws to a close.<\/p>\n

Last year’s visit by Mr Putin was his only second visit out of Russia since the pandemic, and was seen as a message of how seriously Russia sees its ties with India.<\/p>\n

However, since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, there has been great pressure from the Western nations on India to re-evaluate its relationship with Russia.<\/p>\n

India has managed to ward off the pressure and has underlined its historical ties with Russia and even increased its fuel imports from the country from less than 2 per cent in February to 22 per cent in October.<\/p>\n

But in a sign of India’s growing discomfiture, PM Modi told President Putin that this was “not an era of war” when the two met for a bilateral meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit In September.<\/p>\n

The statement was welcomed by the West and even found a mention at the G20 Summit in Bali, but has not placated Ukraine – also a key partner for India.<\/p>\n

In an interview with NDTV earlier this week, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister criticised India for ramping up Russian oil purchases as “morally inappropriate”.<\/p>\n

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