Russian – Indian cooperation within multilateral fora in the Asia-Pacific

The official visit of the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi to Russia was organized on December 23-24, 2015. Narendra Modi and President of Russia Vladimir Putin discussed a progress and prospects of bilateral relations as well as an engagement within the multilateral fora.
During the talks the leaders agreed to expand cooperation within the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) on security and ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting (ADMM) with dialogue partners as well as to strengthen engagement mechanisms to maintain peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region.
Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi noted the importance of the East Asia Summits as a platform for a dialogue on a broad range of political and economic issues to promote peace, stability and economic prosperity in East Asia. The participants discussed the possibility to include maritime cooperation as a priority sphere of the EAS agenda .
The leaders of Russia and India expressed their willingness to collaborate closely within other multilateral formats such as Asia–Europe Meeting (ASEM), Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) and Asia Cooperation Dialogue. Russia confirmed its support of India`s application for accession to APEC and promised to closely collaborate on this.

Joint statement (in Russian)