... approach conflicts in their neighbourhoods with more confidence and to enhance the efficacy of multilateral security arrangements
India and Russia are two great powers located in the South and the North of the vast Eurasian continent, and it is for a good ... ... exercise strategic leadership in Central Asia and in some other parts of the former Soviet Union.
Andrey Kortunov:
India — Pakistan and Russia — Ukraine: What if We Compare the Two?
Both powers confront extremely sensitive and arguably existential ...
... and Islamabad can return to normal is within a broader international context. The same is true of Moscow — Kiev relations
India and Russia are two great powers on the Eurasian continent, and it is for a good reason that they both claim a proactive ... ... diverting attention and resources as well as preventing them from settling into the global international community firm and steady. Pakistan has been a thorn in India’s side for a long time, while Ukraine has recently played a similar role for Russia. How ...
... North is now more imperative than ever before
“As the political landscape of the region changed at the turn of this century, India restored its historical ties of natural affinity with the Central Asian countries….. Our membership of the Shanghai Cooperation ... ... linkages, and articulated the need for strengthening cultural foundations and people to people contacts.
The inclusion of India and Pakistan as full members in 2017, co-opting Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran and Mongolia as the Observer States, and Armenia, Azerbaijan,...
... the summit, a matter of momentous importance for both the SCO itself and for its positioning on the world stage in its new and expanded composition. This was due to significant deepening of the SCO’s geopolitical dimension following the accession of India and Pakistan last year, whose leaders first took part in the organization’s activities at the Qingdao summit. As a result of the expansion, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation has become the world’s largest association, the global nature of which Russian ...
