External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, on September 26, described India-Russia ties as being very stable and said both countries made efforts to ensure the relationship was in good shape. The Minister was providing context for the relationship at a conversation at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York, where he is on a visit for the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
There had been good and bad periods in the U.S.-Russia, Russia-China, and Europe-Russia relationships over the last 70 years, but India’s relationship with Russia had been “very, very, steady”, he said.
Part of the reason for this was an understanding in both countries that as Asian powers they had a structural basis for having to and wanting to get along.
