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Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's upcoming talks with Foreign Minister of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

20 August 2025 14:00
1347-20-08-2025

On August 21, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will hold talks with Minister of External Affairs of the Republic of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Moscow.

Russia and India have developed a special privileged strategic partnership based on mutual trust and respect. The core spheres of cooperation between our two countries include efforts to step up political dialogue in both bilateral and multilateral frameworks, as well as ensuring that agencies in charge of economic and financial matters, energy, arms manufacturing, science and culture work more closely together.

Russia's and India's foreign ministers will pay special attention to the current and future avenues for promoting bilateral cooperation. They will also discuss the schedule for future contacts. The meeting's agenda will focus on facilitating the emergence of transport, logistics, banking and financial links and chains that would be immune to any adverse pressures from unfriendly countries, while also increasing the use of national currencies in their mutual settlements. Expanding cooperation in transport, energy, agriculture, science and technology will also be on the meeting's agenda.

The ministers will also coordinate their positions on the latest international developments, paying special attention to interactions within the United Nations, BRICS, the SCO and the Group of Twenty. The substantive exchange of opinions between the two officials will also include topics related to shaping a security architecture with greater justice for all in the Asia-Pacific Region, as well as the situation in Ukraine and Afghanistan, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Moscow and New Delhi view multipolarity as a core factor for maintaining balance and equilibrium within a world order shaped over the previous decades. Russia focuses on building an inclusive political and economic system and promoting a positive agenda while maintaining constructive interstate dialogue.