Russia to further trilateral relations with China, India

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko vowed on Monday that his country would promote further trilateral relations with China and India.

The forthcoming meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Chinese and Indian counterparts, Li Zhaoxing and Natwar Singh, will bring the trilateral relations to a new level, said Yakovenko.

The meeting, which has been slated in the far-eastern Russian port city of Vladivostok on Thursday, will be their first three- way summit.

The meeting will be aimed at strengthening their cooperation in energy and other issues and "will help maintain stability and promote prosperity in the region," the Itar-Tass news agency quoted Yakovenko as saying.

"Moscow, New Delhi and Beijing have close stances on many vital international issues and all support a multi-polar system of the world order," the Russian diplomat said.

"The trilateral relations will not be directed against anybody, but in the interests of the three countries' peoples," he said.

Foreign ministers of the three countries have held talks earlier, but those meetings were on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly or other international conferences.

Source: Xinhua