Last Updated on 08/07/2024 by wccexam Desk
PM Modi shared a two decade old photo
PM Modi’s visit to Russia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for a three-day visit to Russia and Austria on Monday. PM Modi gave this information through the social media platform X. PM Modi will be on a visit to Moscow on 8 and 9 July. Where he will participate in the 22nd India-Russia Annual Summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Apart from this, he will also address the people of the Indian community in Moscow. Meanwhile, an interesting story related to Prime Minister Modi’s Moscow visit has been shared from the X social media account named ‘Modi Archive’.
Photo of the 2001 India-Russia summit
In this post, a photo of the India-Russia summit of 2001 has also been shared. At that time Narendra Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat. Apart from him, the then Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Vladimir Putin are also seen in the photo. Posted from an account named ‘Modi Archive’, it was written, ‘The long-term relations between India and Russia have deep historical roots, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi has strengthened a lot during his tenure as the Chief Minister of Gujarat. Narendra Modi’s first visit to Russia took place on 6 November 2001, when he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat and went to Moscow with the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for the India-Russia summit with President Vladimir Putin.
First meeting with Vladimir Putin
The post further stated that in 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi recalled this visit and said that this was his first meeting with President Vladimir Putin. He said that despite being from a small country and being relatively new on the international stage, President Putin treated him with great respect, which opened the doors of friendship between the two countries. It was told that during this visit, the then Chief Minister Modi also signed a protocol agreement for cooperation between Gujarat and the Russian province of Astrakhan, in which both agreed to work together in the field of petro and hydrocarbon sectors, trade, science and technology, education, tourism and culture.
Modi surprised businessmen by speaking in Russian language
In the following years, relations between the two countries strengthened through several visits. In 2006, Narendra Modi visited Astrakhan. During this he met Governor Alexander Zhilkin and the protocol agreement for cooperation was extended for another five years. In 2009 he was invited to address the 4th International Energy Week and deliver the keynote address at the 9th Russian Oil and Gas Week Conference. Narendra Modi surprised Russian businessmen by speaking in Russian. These collaborations laid the foundation of Gujarat-Russia partnership, especially in the energy and petrochemical sectors. Today the entire country is benefiting from this strong relationship. (IANS Input)