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Russia, China for tie-up with India

Vladimir Radyuhin

For meeting economic, other challenges

MOSCOW : Russia and China have called for setting up an institutional framework for trilateral cooperation with India to deal with new threats and challenges.

The call, made in a joint declaration adopted by President Vladimir Putin and Chairman Hu Jintao during their summit meeting in Beijing on March 21-22, came two weeks after India dramatically raised the level of strategic interaction with the United States.

Strengthening efforts

"The sides favour an early establishment of a mechanism of trilateral cooperation in the Russia-China-India format in the belief that this will contribute to a fuller realisation of their potentials for economic development and will strengthen international efforts to stand up to new threats and challenges," said the Russian-Chinese declaration posted on the site of the Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday.

Stand-alone meeting

A trilateral meeting of businessmen from India, Russia and China has been scheduled in Delhi for end of March, and the Foreign Ministers of the three countries are to hold their second stand-alone meeting in India later this year.

Russia and China also vowed to work for closer cooperation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), which India joined last year as observer.

"Russia and China regard the development of SCO as a key strategic element of their foreign policy and intend to continue to closely coordinate their positions in the framework of this organisation," the joint declaration said.

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