{"id":23042,"date":"2016-10-15T11:59:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T11:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/?p=23042"},"modified":"2016-10-15T11:59:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T11:59:32","slug":"english-narendra-modi-vladimir-putin-begin-bilateral-talks-on-brics-sidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/?p=23042","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->NARENDRA MODI, VLADIMIR PUTIN BEGIN BILATERAL TALKS ON BRICS SIDELINES<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->Prime Minister Narendra Modi and visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday began a closed-door bilateral meeting ahead of BRICS heads of states meet in Goa.<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders are meeting as part of the annual India-Russia summit following which the two countries are expected to sign key defence, energy and agriculture-related business deals.<\/p>\n<p>External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup said Modi and Putin &#8220;will discuss on a range of issues including defence, counter-terrorism&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Putin arrived at the Dabolim airport to a red carpet welcome after which Modi, on Twitter, greeted the Russian President saying, &#8220;India welcomes you, President Putin! Wishing you a fruitful visit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Top bureaucrats from the Russian defence, energy, trade and industries ministries are accompanying the President. Modi and Putin via video conference will also participate in foundation-laying ceremony of the third and fourth power units at the Kundakulam nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders are expected to hold discussions over lunch and issue a formal statement to the media following the summit. Talks between India and Russia for setting up units 5 and 6 of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) are also expected to culminate into a general framework agreement. This could be announced after talks Modi-Putin.<\/p>\n<p>An official of the Russian atomic energy corporation Rosatom, the builders of KNPP, told IANS on Friday that negotiations for units 5 and 6 had been expedited so that an announcement could be made during the BRICS leaders summit in Goa on October 15-16.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi and visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday began a closed-door bilateral meeting ahead of BRICS heads of states meet in Goa. The two leaders are meeting as part of the annual India-Russia summit following which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23043,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23042\/revisions\/23043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23042"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=23042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}