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PM Modi reaches Russia, calls visit 'important'

| | Dec 24, 2015, at 01:43 am
Moscow, Dec 23 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Russian capital Moscow and said he will need to perform a series of programmes during his short visit to the country.

He also called the visit to the nation as 'important'.

"Reached Moscow. A series of programmes await in this short but very important visit: PM Tweets on landing in Russia," PMO India tweeted.

Ahead of his first visit to Russia as the Prime Minister, Modi spoke to Russian media about the unwavering friend that Russia is.

Speaking to  Russian news agency Tass in an interview published on their website, the Indian PM said, "Russia is India's unwavering friend. Russian citizens too maintained unwavering relations with India. And politically apart, the Russian citizens have shown considerable interest in the Indian traditions and India's culture. And it makes our relationship stronger."

At the invitation of President Vladimir Putin, Modi  is paying his first official bilateral visit to Moscow from Dec 23-24 for the 16th India-Russia Annual Summit.

At the summit, Modi and President Putin will review the relationship between India and Russia to strengthen it further and hold discussions on regional and global issues.

Modi, who visited the country in 2001 as a Chief Minister (of Gujarat), said that he feels he should have come a bit earlier and that there is a mixed emotion that he's feeling here.   

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