'India-Russia partnership will serve the world well'

EAM also said that devising appropriate methods of cooperation is essential for both India & Russia

- STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday said a partnership between an India that has an 8 percent growth rate for multiple decades ahead, and a Russia that is a key natural resources provider and a major technology leader, will serve both of the countries and the world well.

"A growing Russian appreciation of Make in India as a program to deepen business will certainly help to take forward our cooperation in many domains," he said at the India-Russia Business Forum in Mumbai.

The session was also attended by Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov, who is here for the 25th session of the India-Russia Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technical and Cultural Cooperation to be held in New Delhi on Tuesday.

Noting that the business meet is being held barely three months after the Annual Summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and their interaction on the margins of the BRICS Summit last month in Kazan, Mr Jaishankar said those occasions have provided a strategic direction, whose economic dimension the two nations seek to realise.