Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to India in December, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said on Friday.
Ushakov said President Putin will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in China’s Tianjin city to discuss the preparations for his visit to India.
“Right after the SCO Plus meeting (on September 1), our president will meet Indian Prime Minister Modi,” Ushakov told journalists.
“What is especially important is that preparations will be discussed for the upcoming visit of our president to India in December,” he added.
In Tianjin, the two leaders will have their first meeting this year, although they have been regularly in touch on the phone, he said.
“Our countries are bound by a special strategic partnership,” he said.
