Important meeting between NSA Ajit Doval and Putin

Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the BRICS summit to be held in Kazan next month. Putin made this proposal during a meeting with National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval in St. Petersburg on Thursday.

The Putin-Doval meeting took place nearly three weeks after Modi’s visit to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky. The BRICS summit will be held in the Russian city of Kazan on October 22-24. Prime Minister Modi may attend this summit.

In a face-to-face conversation with Putin, Doval tells Russian President Putin, ‘As Prime Minister Modi had a telephone conversation with you, he was keen to give you information about his visit to Ukraine and his meeting with President Zelensky. He wanted me to personally and specifically go to Russia and meet you and tell you about that conversation. The conversation took place in a very close format. There were only two leaders. He had two people with him. I was with the Prime Minister. I am a witness to this conversation.’

A statement issued by Russia regarding the Putin-Doval meeting said that the Russian President proposed to hold a bilateral meeting with Modi on October 22 on the occasion of the BRICS summit to present a “summary of the results of joint work” on the implementation of the agreements reached during the Indian leader’s visit to Moscow and to outline the prospects for the near future.