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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Putin praised Chinese-Russian relations in a televised statement ahead of their meeting, saying the partnership was experiencing its “best period in history.” The two leaders last met in May, when Putin traveled to Beijing and the pair signed a joint statement “on deepening relations of comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction.”
At the SCO Plus meeting, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia could return to the so-called "Istanbul Agreements" regarding peace between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, although he recently announced other conditions for negotiations, reports "RIA Novosti".
Russia and India call for reforming the United Nations Security Council and admitting India as its permanent member, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a joint statement after their talks in Moscow. "Both Sides called for comprehensive reform of the UNSC to reflect contemporary global realities and to make it more representative, effective and efficient in dealing with issues of international peace and security. Russia reiterated its steadfast support for India’s permanent membership of a reformed and expanded UN Security Council," the document reads.
Moscow agrees to discharge all Indians recruited into Russian army, Indian outlet reports. Moscow agreed to release all Indians serving in the Russian army and facilitate their return after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met President Vladimir Putin, Indian news publication NDTV reported on July 9, citing unnamed sources.
Moscow is ready to consider Tehran as a mediator for settling the situation in Ukraine if Iran is interested, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko said at a meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club. "So far we have not received any such signals from our Iranian friends, but if Iran shows interest in joining mediation efforts, which are currently being made by about a couple of dozen countries, we are ready to consider it," he said.
CNN reported, citing sources, that a plot was discovered earlier this year to assassinate Armin Papperger, chief executive officer of the German arms maker Rheinmetall. US intelligence, which found out about the plans, alerted Germany, whose security services were able to foil the plot, the report said. According to CNN, Russia could be behind the assassination plans as it targeted the head of a company that has been supplying weapons to Kiev. The news organization hasn’t provided any evidence of this theory, or any details of the plot.
Two Russian Warships in China for Joint Naval Exercises Beijing and Moscow will exercise anti-air and anti-submarine attacks in bid to play muscles in front of the US and Nato
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