Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Russia, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday said that the biggest change in relations with Russia is that the economic relationship between the two countries has improved tremendously. Speaking to ANI, Jaishankar said that it will be a great opportunity for PM Modi and Russian President Putin to sit and discuss the relationship. "It is a way of taking stock of any relationship.
.. one of the biggest changes has been, that our economic relationship with Russia has grown tremendously.
.. at the leadership level, it will be a great opportunity for PM Modi and Russian President Putin to sit down and directly talk to each other," he said.
Jaishankar said that because of the varied preoccupations of both- PM Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the annual summit was a bit delayed. "There was a bit of a delay in our annual summits, it is a good tradition, we are two countries which have a strong history of working together. We did value the need for an annual summit.
Last year when I went to Moscow, I carried a message from the PM that we are committed to the annual summit and we will do it sooner rather than later...
it is a regular recurrence. It is a way of taking stock of any relationship," he said. He said that both countries have a steady history of working together.
"We look at the happenings around the world and see if we want to make any amends to a situation, we meet and discuss. This meeting was something th.