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India to take part in meeting of RIC grouping
Why it is in news?
- India will participate in the virtual meeting of the Russia-India-China (RIC) grouping, the Ministry of External Affairs confirmed.
More in news:
- This meeting can help in de-escalation of tensions between India and China.
- RIC as a strategic grouping first took shape in the late 1990s under the leadership of Yevgeny Primakov, Russian diplomat and politician, as “a counterbalance to the Western alliance.”
- The group was founded on the basis of ending its subservient foreign policy guided by the U.S. and renewing old ties with India and fostering the newly discovered friendship with China