Question : TRILATERAL MEET IN MOSCOW



(a) whether India participated in the trilateral meet of the foreign ministers of Russia, India and China in Moscow recently; and

(b) if so, the details thereof and the outcome thereof?

Answer given by the minister


THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS (SHRIMATI PRENEET KAUR)

(a) & (b) No. The last Russia-India-China Trilateral Foreign Ministers Meeting was held in Moscow in April 2012. A Joint Communiqué was issued at the end of the meeting. The Communiqué reflected the common positions of the three countries on a broad range of regional and international issues such as the situation in Afghanistan, countering terrorism, non-proliferation, the situation in the Korean Peninsula, the role of United Nations, situation in the Middle East and North Africa, the global financial crisis, WTO, climate change, security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific etc. The meeting also reviewed the various thematic cooperation formats in the areas of emergency response, healthcare, agriculture, business and academic interactions.