Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s telephone conversation with Minister of External Affairs of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

On May 2, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a telephone conversation with Minister of External Affairs of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.

The foreign ministers discussed topical issues of Russian-Indian interaction as well as the exasperation of Indian-Pakistani relations following the terrorist act in Pahalgam. Sergey Lavrov called to settle the differences between New Delhi and Islamabad by political and diplomatic means on a bilateral basis in conformity with the 1972 Simla Agreement and the 1999 Lahore Declaration.

The ministers also discussed the timetable of the upcoming contacts at the top and high levels.