RIC TRILATERAL GROUPING

June 29, 2020

Recently, a special Russia-India-China- RIC trilateral Foreign Minister's Video Conference was organized to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the conclusion of the Second World War.

About:

  • RIC as a strategic grouping first took shape in the late 1990s under the leadership of Yevgeny Primakov as “a counterbalance to the Western alliance.”

  • Primakov, a Russian politician and diplomat who was also the prime minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999, is credited with the idea for RIC.

  • The group was founded for renewing old ties with India and fostering the newly discovered friendship with China.