New Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will go on a two-day visit to Russia next week on October 22. On the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, PM Modi will participate in the 16th BRICS summit to be held in Kazan. BRICS countries include Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. When BRIC was formed in the year 2006, it included only four countries, Brazil, Russia, India and China. The leaders of these countries under the BRIC formation met for the first time in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2006. After this, the first BRIC summit was held in Yekaterinburg, Russia in 2009. A year later, in September 2010, it was renamed BRICS after South Africa was accepted as a full member at the meeting of foreign ministers of the BRIC countries in New York.
Earlier, in July this year also, PM Modi had gone to Russia on a two-day visit. During this, President Vladimir Putin honored PM Modi with Russia’s highest civilian honor, the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle. In his bilateral talks with Putin, Modi had clearly raised the issue of the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine and appealed for peace. After his visit to Russia, PM Modi went to Ukraine and there too he called for an end to the war in bilateral talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Modi had told Zelensky that I have looked Russian President Putin in the eye and told him that war does not solve any problem. Even the most complex issues can always be solved through dialogue. After PM Modi’s visit to Ukraine, India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval also went to Russia and met Putin and he briefed him about his conversation with Zelensky during PM Modi’s visit to Ukraine.
