– Europe Press/Contact/Alexander Kazakov
Madrid, November 28 (European Press) –
Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to pay a two-day official visit to India in early December to discuss bilateral relations and “international and regional issues,” a trip in which he will meet his Indian counterpart Draupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Kremlin indicated in a statement that the trip will take place between December 4 and 5 “at the invitation of Narendra Modi,” and stressed that it is an “important visit” that “will provide an opportunity to discuss in depth the entire agenda of relations between Russia and India.”
Thus, he praised this “special strategic partnership” between Moscow and New Delhi “in the political, commercial, economic, scientific, technological, cultural and humanitarian fields,” in addition to addressing regional and international issues, with the aim of publishing a joint statement and “signing several bilateral inter-agency documents of a commercial nature.”
The Indian authorities have not signed the Rome Statute, one of the pillars of the International Criminal Court, so they are not part of the body, which issued an arrest warrant against Putin on the basis of the assumption that war crimes were committed in the context of the invasion of Ukraine, which began in February 2022.