MOSCOW, Oct 3: Russian President Vladimir Putin has lauded the ”special” relations with India and said both countries have never had any issues or problems on the inter-State level.
”Our relations are special ever since soviet times. Fifteen years ago we made an announcement about our strategic privileged partnership, and that is a perfect description of our relations with India. We have never had any issues or problems with India on the inter-state level,” Putin said in reply to a question after his address at the plenary session of the 22nd annual meeting of Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi.
Replying to a question on US tariffs against India for buying Russian oil President Putin said US tariffs against India will fail and unlike Europe, India and China are countries that respect themselves.
He said if India stopped buying Russian energy, damage would be inflicted upon them, like USD 9-10 bn.
”Why then decline to buy Russian energy to actually sustain political risks. And the Indian people will look at what decisions are made by their political leadership and will never accept any humiliation before anyone.”
”And also I know Prime Minister Modi. He will never take any steps of the kind. So economy-wise there is no point in it.”
Describing Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a “balanced and wise” leader and ”my dear friend, trustworthy partner,” President Putin said he was looking forward to his visit to India in early December.
”I am looking forward to my trip in early December and I highly await my meeting with my dear friend, our trustworthy partner, Prime Minister Modi,” he said.
Talking about cooperation in AI and other modern developments with India, he said Russia could acquire more agricultural products, more medical products and more could be done.
”As for where we see the most prospective areas of cooperation where we could fix the disbalance in trade, we could acquire more agricultural products, more medical products and more could be done from our side.”
He said that for the US, the benefit is not obvious and the countries against which the threat was, like India.
He said there are a lot of students in Russia from India and Russian love Indian films.
”I believe we are the only country, other than India, that we have an entire TV channel that broadcasts only Indian films,” he said.
(UNI(
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