 Your Excellency, Mr. Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, Ministers, distinguished guests, members of the media, ladies and gentlemen, I welcome you to today's ceremony where eight documents will be exchanged. The first is the protocol for consultations between the two foreign ministries for the period 2019-2023. This will be exchanged by His Excellency Sergey Lavrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, and by Srimati Shushma Swaraj, the External Affairs Minister of India. Second, memorandum of understanding between the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation and the National Institution for Transforming India, Nitya Yog, to be exchanged by His Excellency, Mr. Maxime Oschikin, Minister of Economic Development of Russia, and Dr. Rajiv Kumar, V.C. Nitya Yog. Number three, MOU between ISRO and the Federal Space Agency of Russia on joint activities in the field of Human Space Flight Program to be exchanged by Mr. Dmitry Rogosin, Director of Roskomos and Foreign Secretary of India, Shri Vijay Gokhale. Fourth, memorandum of cooperation between the Indian and Russian railways to be exchanged by Mr. Oleg Belozerov, CEO, Chairman of Russian railways, and Shri Vijay Gokhale, Foreign Secretary of India. Fifth, action plan for prioritization and implementation of cooperation area in the nuclear field to be exchanged by Mr. Alexei Lykachev, DG Rosatom, and Shri K. Nvyaz, Secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy. Sixth, MOU between the Russian Ministry of Transport and Indian Railways in the development cooperation in the sector of transport education to be exchanged by His Excellency, Mr. Nikolay Kodashev, Ambassador of Russia, and the Ambassador of India to Russia, Shri D.B. Venkatesh Varma. Seventh, MOU between the National Small Industries Corporation of India and the Russian Small and Medium Business Corporation on cooperation in the field of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises to be exchanged by Mr. Alexander Bravman, DG Russian Small and Medium Business Corporation and our Ambassador in Russia, Shri D.B. Venkatesh Varma. Eighth, cooperation agreement in the fertilizer sector between the Russian Direct Investment Fund, Force Agro and Indian Potash Limited to be exchanged on the Russian side by Mr. Kirill Dimitriev, DG Russian Direct Investment Fund and Mr. Andrey Guryev, CEO of Force Agro and on the Indian side by our Ambassador to Russia, Shri D.B. Venkatesh Varma. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, I'm also pleased to report that following the summit negotiations, President Putin and Prime Minister Modiji, both sides have adopted the joint statement, Russia, India and enduring partnership in a changing world. Excellencies, this concludes the signing and exchange ceremony. I now request the spokesperson of the Minister of External Affairs to conduct the proceedings. I welcome you all to this press event. To begin the proceedings, may I request the Honorable Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modiji, to deliver his statement to the media. Mr. Excellencies, President of Russia and my dear friend Valdimir Mirovich Putin, both sides have adopted the joint statement, Namashar Dobridhin. Mr. Excellencies, President of Russia and my dear friend Valdimir Mirovich Putin, both sides have adopted the joint statement, Namashar Dobridhin. Mr. Excellencies, President of Russia and my dear friend Valdimir Mirovich Putin, both sides have adopted the joint statement, Namashar Dobridhin. In the meantime, Mr. President of Russia and my dear friend Valdimir Mirovich Putin, both sides have adopted the joint statement, Namashar Dobridhin. Mr. Excellencies, President of Russia and my dear friend Valdimir Mirovich Putin, both sides have adopted the joint statement, Namashar Dobridhin. Mr. Excellencies, President of Russia and my dear friend Valdimir Mirovich Putin, both sides have adopted the joint statement, Namashar Dobridhin. Mr. Excellencies, President of Russia and my dear friend Valdimir Mirovich Putin, both sides have adopted the joint statement, Namashar Dobridhin. Mr. Excellencies, President of Russia and my dear friend Valdimir Mirovich Putin, both sides have adopted the joint statement, Namashar Dobridhin. Mr. Excellencies, President of Russia and my dear friend Valdimir Mirovich Putin, both sides have adopted the joint statement, Namashar Dobridhin. Mr. Excellencies, President of Russia and my dear friend Valdimir Mirovich Putin, We have a strategic direction from your journey. Today, we have taken such an important decision that will make our relations stronger with the divine vision. We will make our relations stronger with the divine vision. With human resource development, with natural and energy resources, with trade, with investment, with peace of mind, with natural and energy resources, with technology, with Tiger conservation, with architecture, with fire, with ocean, with the end of India and the Russian relations. Together, our relations will be more important and stronger. In the development journey of India, Russia has always been with us. Our next destination in our space is the Indian space journey. I am very happy that you have given the full support of Russia in this mission. I am very happy that you have given the full support of Russia in this mission. I am very happy that you have given the full support of Russia in this mission. Today, we will talk about two things. This idea has been developed together. We welcome the Russian destiny in the flagship programs of India and in the business opportunities of the world. I am also happy that after a while, we will also participate in the India-Russia-Biden Summit. From both the countries, we are taking part in the 200th anniversary of India-Russia-Biden Summit. In all the international matters of the past, India-Russia-Biden Summit has always been with us. President Putin and I have also discussed this in detail. India-Russia-Biden Summit has always been with us. We are taking part in the 200th anniversary of India-Russia-Biden Summit. We are taking part in the 200th anniversary of India-Russia-Biden Summit. We are taking part in the 200th anniversary of India-Russia-Biden Summit. We are taking part in the 200th anniversary of India-Russia-Biden Summit. We are taking part in the 200th anniversary of India-Russia-Biden Summit. We are taking part in the 200th anniversary of India-Russia-Biden Summit. We are taking part in the 200th anniversary of India-Russia-Biden Summit. We are taking part in the 200th anniversary of India-Russia-Biden Summit. We are taking part in the 200th anniversary of India-Russia-Biden Summit. We are taking part in the 200th anniversary of India-Russia-Biden Summit. We are taking part in the 200th anniversary of India-Russia-Biden Summit. This is a unique experience for us. I am sure that President Putin will be very proud of this relationship with this special relationship. And we will be very proud of this friendship. And our Special and Privilege Strategic Partnership will be very grateful to all of you. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Now it is my pleasure to invite the President of the Russian Federation, His Excellency, Mr. Vladimir Putin, to deliver his statement to the media. Dear friends, your Excellency, Mr. Prime Minister, ladies and gentlemen, it is obviously our great pleasure to come to India because we know that here we will find an environment of sincere friendship, business-like communication and cooperation. Our nations and states have for a long time been connected through a strong relationship of friendship, mutual respect and sympathy. For this sign of friendship, for giving us this opportunity to talk in this very close format and to discuss the most important and relevant topics on the agenda, on the global agenda and discuss the fundamental issues of Russian-Indian cooperation and to outline new horizons. And today, first in the restricted format and then with participation of delegations, we discussed the key areas of our cooperation. We've had a very meaningful discussion on the whole range of issues of bilateral cooperation. We have discussed in details relevant topics of international and regional agenda. We have adopted a joint statement which reflects almost all aspects of Russian-Indian cooperation. We have outlined large-scale plans for a long-term prospect. A solid package of interagency and corporate documents we have just signed today has been prepared for the visit and its goal is to further develop and deepen our bilateral ties in various areas. It is true that we indeed discussed in this negotiations our trade and investment cooperation and broadening this kind of cooperation is of utmost importance for me and for Mr. Prime Minister. We have set a goal of increasing the goods turnover up to 30 billion US dollars by 2025 and the amount of mutual investments up to 15 billion US dollars. And in this context, we were pleased to note that last year mutual trade grew by 21% exceeding 9 billion US dollars. Over the seven months of this year, it has added another 20%. If we proceed moving at this pace, we will be able to reach our goal even before the set framework. Business circles of Russian-India maintain close contacts. They implement large joint investment projects. Representative Indian Delegations took part in St. Petersburg Economic Forum and in the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. And it is my great pleasure to once again invite Mr. Prime Minister to participate in the next Vladivostok Forum as the main guest at the Vladivostok Economic Forum in September 2019. Russian-Indian Business Forum is taking place in New Delhi these days and Mr. Prime Minister and I will deliver a statement to its participants and we will support useful initiatives to develop cooperation in key areas of economy and finance. Deepening our cooperation in energy sector is one of the topics that we have paid a lot of attention to together with Mr. Prime Minister. We gave a positive assessment of implementation of interagency program of cooperation in the strategic area. Russia is a reliable supply of hydrocarbons to India. We are successfully implementing long-term contracts through Rosneft and Gazprom to ensure to supply the Indian economy with energy commodities. India imports Russia's liquefied natural gas. We are supplying this gas from Sahalin, one field in which Indian partners own 20%. In June, the first batch of LNG was sent to the Indian market within the framework of the contract between Gazprom and the gas authority of India Limited. We also welcome interest of energy companies from India to expand their businesses in Russia. We are ready to consider the possibility of cooperating within such programs as forest and LNG, Arctic, LNG2 and also other products to explore and to explore natural resources of Siberia, Yamal and continental shelf of the Russian Federation. We have discussed in details the flagship project and the peaceful use of nuclear energy, Kudankulam nuclear power plant. The first two units of this nuclear power plant are gaining their full capacity. The third and fourth units have been constructed. The fifth and sixth units are to be constructed next. According to the agreements that we possess, based on Russian high-tech technologies, we plan to build 12 power units in the next 20 years in India. We have touched upon strengthening our cooperation in industry and investment. We talked in particular about machine-building, metallurgy, agriculture, medicine, pharmaceuticals and biochemical technologies. We believe there is a good prospect for joint cooperation in large infrastructure projects. In particular, Russian Railways Company is ready to participate in the project to build modern railroads in India. We have agreed that Russia will assist Indian partners in exploring outer space. Roscosmos Agency plans to participate in preparing Indian National Programme to launch the manned spacecraft. And of course we have discussed in detail the prospects of our military and technical cooperation for decades. Russia and India have been cooperating successfully in this area. We enjoy a truly close and mutually beneficial relationship which is an inalienable part of the Russian-Indian strategic partnership. Our cooperation gals beyond supplies of Russian weapons. Our countries produce and develop jointly modern military products. We maintain regular contacts between ministries of defense and general staff of our countries. We improve our combat readiness in August. Indian units participated for the first time in anti-terror exercises called Peace Mission 2018 that took place in Russia. India's servicemen are active participants of army international games in tank biathlon and in competitions of alpine special forces. We have of course paid a lot of our attention during our talks to humanitarian component of our relationship. Russia and India have always demonstrated interest in each other's culture and spiritual legacy. This is confirmed by the huge success of the festival of India in Russia which will last until much 2019 in 22 cities of Russia. India will host festival of Russian culture. I'm convinced all these events will bring the peoples of our countries even closer. There are almost 10,000 Indian students in Russia and about 100 scholarships are provided to the citizens of India annually. India is a popular direction for Russian tourists in 2017. About 220,000 Russians visited India. We received 94,000 Indians in Russia. When discussing international agenda we have confirmed that Russia and India adhere to similar or concurring positions on the key global issues. Bear in this in mind, we have agreed to step up our coordination cooperation at multilateral platforms such as the UN, BRICS, SCO and G20. We will also cooperate closely to strengthen security and cooperation in Asia. We will combat such challenges and threats as international terrorism, drug trafficking and trans-border crime. We have also touched upon restoration of economy and stable political development of Afghanistan. We have exchanged views on the situation in the Middle East. I have informed Mr Prime Minister about the situation in Syria. We have also discussed the situation that came as a result of unilateral actions of the US to withdraw from the joint comprehensive plan of action on Iran's nuclear deal. In conclusion, I would like to thank Mr Prime Minister and all of our Indian friends and colleagues for these very meaningful and constructive negotiations. I'm convinced that their results will help further contribute, will have further step up strategic partnership between Russia and India and strengthen friendship between our countries and nations. As I have already said, Prime Minister and I will have a meeting with the representative of business circles as well as with talented Indian children and their peers from the Russian Educational Centre named Sirius, who came upon Mr Modi's invitation to India. I will also meet with Mr President of the Republic of India. Mr Prime Minister has put forward a number of humanitarian initiatives, such as to renew the publishing of Russian and Indian books and also cooperating in some other areas in humanitarian field. I believe it is very important we will support these initiatives because we believe that cooperation in this field and people-to-people contact will definitely help consolidate the friendship between the peoples of India and the Russian Federation. Thank you. Thank you, Excellency. This concludes the press event. Thank you all for joining.