New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will welcome the President of The Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on Sunday for the flagship annual meeting between India and Russia.

The summit will also witness the inaugural session of the India-Russia 2 2 dialogue. Russia’s Defence and Foreign Ministers will hold talks with their Indian counterparts.

An increasing focus on the Indo-Pacific arena makes this year’s summit even more interesting. India has regularly held 2 2 dialogues with Japan, the US, and Australia in recent years. The maintenance of a ‘Free-and-Open-Indo-Pacific’ has featured as a central theme in all these engagements.