Speaking at the “Forum of the Future 2050” in Moscow June 9, Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, said that “tension has eased significantly” between China and India, and that therefore, now would be a good time to restore the RIC (Russia-India-China) troika. He emphasized that this would be a stepping stone towards pan-Eurasian cooperation.
Lavrov stated in his speech yesterday that his predecessor, former Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov had first advanced the idea of multipolarity: “The multipolar world, as a theme, brought to life the glimmers of hope that we saw in the mid-1990s. In 1994, I began working in New York. In January 1996, Yevgeny Primakov was appointed Foreign Minister. He remains our great teacher. He had a very compelling and multifaceted personality. He had the gift of political and geopolitical foresight, something few people on Earth or in politics have or ever had. Primakov’s concept of multipolarity was truly groundbreaking at the time.”
