MOSCOW, May 31 (RIA Novosti) - Russia, China and India have a big technological and financial potential for economic cooperation, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
"The economic factor plays an important role in the rapprochement of the three countries. Russia, India and China have rapidly developing and perspective economies," official spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Alexander Yakovenko told RIA Novosti prior to the trilateral meetings of the Russian, Indian and Chinese foreign ministers in Vladivostok (Russia's Far East) on June 2.
"Trilateral economic cooperation has a good resource, technological and financial potential and possibilities for implementing major economic projects based on complementary principles," Yakovenko said. "Businessmen of these countries are highly interested in trilateral cooperation," he added.
According to the spokesman, Moscow, New Delhi and Beijing share common interests in the international sphere. "Russia, India and China are faces common problems in the fight against new threats and challenges, above all, terrorism, and share common approaches to the eradication of this evil," he said.
The three powers are interested in maintaining stability in the Asia-Pacific region which, unfortunately, has many hot spots.
Further development of regular trilateral dialogue meets long-term political and economic interests of the three countries, promotes mutually beneficial cooperation and makes an important contribution to regional and international stability, Yakovenko concluded.
