Amidst the ongoing war with Ukraine, Russia on Friday released a strategic document regarding its new foreign policy. In its new foreign policy, Russia has decided to further strengthen relations with India and China in all areas ranging from trade and technology. Russia has made it in line with the 2021 National Security Strategy. President Vladimir Putin has released it on Friday. In this, emphasis has been laid on giving priority to Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), RIC (Russia, India, China), BRICS and other such groups, in which not a single country of the western countries has a role.
Under its new foreign policy, Russia has emphasized on increasing and expanding cooperation in all fields with India on a mutually beneficial basis, increasing bilateral trade, strengthening investment and technical ties. Along with this, it will continue to work on increasing the privileged strategic partnership in particular and has given priority to resisting the subversive steps of unfriendly countries and their alliances.
Preference to groups from non-European countries
Russia has emphasized the fact that it follows an “independent and multi-vector” foreign policy. Russia has said it wants to make it a priority to enhance capacity and help the global order adapt to the realities of a multi-polar world. For this, it wants to ensure the international role of interstate associations like BRICS, (SCO), Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and RIC and other groups.
India and Russia signed a ‘Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership’ in December 2010 to further upgrade the ‘Strategic Partnership’ signed in October 2000. On growing ties with China, the document said Moscow would aim to “further strengthen comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation” with Beijing to “support efforts for security, stability and sustainable development at the global and regional levels in Eurasia and the world”. To be confirmed in other parts.
With larger goals for the development of the Eurasian region, Russia said it would promote China’s role for more infrastructure development in some projects such as the Baikal-Amur Mainline and the Trans-Siberian Railway, the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) . In addition, it will build other development zones and economic corridors, including the Western Europe-Western China International Transit Corridor, the Caspian and Black Sea regions and the Northern Sea Route infrastructure improvement, the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor.
‘Russia made an aggressive policy towards European countries’
In February last year, Russia attacked Ukraine and the war between the two is still going on. Troubled by Russia’s move, Europe and America are adopting an “aggressive” strategy towards Moscow. The document noted that most European countries have adopted an aggressive policy towards Russia, aimed at threatening the security and sovereignty of the Russian Federation, obtaining unilateral economic benefits, undermining domestic political stability, and destroying traditional Russian spiritual values. And destroy moral values and create obstacles in cooperation with Russia.
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,Emphasis on the policy of peaceful coexistence with America.
Interestingly, the document calls for “maintaining strategic parity” and “peaceful coexistence” with the United States, despite rising tensions between Washington and Moscow. The document states that “the Russian Federation is interested in maintaining strategic parity, peaceful coexistence with the United States, and establishing a balance of interests between Russia and the United States. Keeping in mind and said to bear special responsibility for strategic stability and international security.
