Will continue building strategic partnership with India: Russian policy document

The document emphasised the importance of Russia deepening relations and coordination with sovereign centres of power on the Eurasian continent.

NEW DELHI: Russia will continue building its strategic partnership with India to expand cooperation in all areas, according to an updated national foreign policy concept approved by President Vladimir Putin on Friday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved the updated national foreign policy concept posted o the website of the Russian foreign ministry (via REUTERS)

At the same time, Russia envisages strengthening its comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation with China, including enhanced coordination in the international arena to ensure security, said the policy document posted on the website of the Russian foreign ministry.

Both India and China feature in the section of the policy document devoted to the “Eurasian continent”. The document was approved by a decree issued by Putin.

“Russia will continue to build up a particularly privileged strategic partnership with the Republic of India with a view to enhance and expand cooperation in all areas on a mutually beneficial basis and place special emphasis on increasing the volume of bilateral trade, strengthening investment and technological ties, and ensuring their resistance to destructive actions of unfriendly states and their alliances,” the document said.

Russia will also strengthen “comprehensive partnership and the strategic cooperation” with China and focus on developing “mutually beneficial cooperation in all areas, provision of mutual assistance, and enhancement of coordination in the international arena to ensure security, stability and sustainable development at the global and regional levels, both in Eurasia and in other parts of the world”.

In order to “adapt the world order to the realities of a multipolar world”, Russia will make it a priority to “enhance the capacity and international role” of BRICS, RIC (Russia, India, China), Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), other interstate associations, international organisations, and mechanisms with strong Russian participation.

The document emphasised the importance of Russia deepening relations and coordination with sovereign centres of power on the Eurasian continent.

It stated that the “comprehensive deepening of ties and enhancement of coordination with friendly sovereign global centres of power and development, which are located on the Eurasian continent and committed to approaches which coincide in principle with the Russian approaches to a future world order and solutions for key problems of the world politics, is particularly important for achieving strategic goals and major objectives of the foreign policy” of Russia.