NARENDRA MODI (retranslated): Mr President, thank you for calling me to congratulate me after our party won the election. You passed on your warmest wishes and from our conversation I got the feeling that our new Government will work successfully with Russia and that we will take our bilateral relations to a new level.

If you ask anyone among the more than one billion people living in India who is our country’s greatest friend, every person, every child knows that it is Russia. Everyone knows that Russia has always stood side by side with India during the toughest moments and without demanding anything in return.