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The foreign Ministers of Russia, India and China on Tuesday held a meeting via videoconference, discussed the interaction of the three major powers of Eurasia in the fight against the pandemic and its impact. The next meeting in the RIC format was for its members the most difficult in history, given what happened recently the largest in the last half-century collision of the Indian and Chinese border guards. In order to maintain the window of opportunity for diplomacy, the participants made a conflict Delhi and Beijing beyond the discussion. However, despite efforts to strengthen the RIC, the format is bursting at the seams. Russia is increasingly supported by China, and India pulling away from him.The next meeting of the foreign Ministers of Russia, India and China in the format enterprises RICK, for objective reasons, was with a three-month delay. Initially it was planned that Sergey Lavrov will meet with his Indian and Chinese colleagues Subramaniyam Jaishankar and van And in March in Sochi, but the schedule of contacts has been violated by the pandemic coronavirus. In the end, the foreign Ministers of the three countries managed to hold a discussion on 23 June, and not in the personal communication, and gaining popularity in the world of diplomacy via videoconference.Dialogue RICK, started in 2005, the first days were not easy. Given the strained relations between India and China have unresolved border conflict after the war of 1962, the parties carefully avoided the sharp corners and tried to make the maximum emphasis on cooperation in those areas where the interests of Russia, India and China are the same, so that the RIC format will continue to be in demand.History sopraccitate daleane the exception of the last meeting, which has again been called into question — this time in connection with the collision of the Indian and Chinese border guards on the line of control in Ladakh that occurred on June 15-16 and became the largest incident at the border over the past half century.To ensure that the meeting did take place, the parties moved into the lead and agreed to endure the thorny issue of the border conflict beyond the discussion, focusing on other issues equally affecting all— coronavirus pandemic and coping with its economic and political consequences.”The arrangement of a video conference confirms the General understanding of the three States the importance of continuing cooperation in the RIC format (Russia, India, China), to unite efforts in counteraction to the crisis phenomena in world politics and economy, triggered by the pandemic COVID-19″— said the Russian foreign Ministry. In the comment of the Russian diplomat also noted that the state RICK “agreed on the need for collective search for the answer to this and similar threats, reiterating that the Central��tion role in this process should belong to the UN.”In this regard, the Russian foreign Ministry made a special emphasis on the fact that “attempts to use the current crisis situation in order to gain unilateral benefits at the expense of safety and the interests of other countries are unacceptable.”Opening the meeting, Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov confirmed the attitude of the Russian side to maintain and expand cooperation in the RIC format, which these days passes the critical test of viability.”I am convinced that continued use of the potentials of our three countries will continue to play an important stabilizing role in world Affairs and remain a tool for the entire international community in the effective solution of many urgent problems of our time,” said Mr. Lavrov.”The pandemic demonstrated the unprecedented interconnectedness of the international community without any adjustments for geographical location and level of material well-being. Once again confirmed that in today’s interconnected world “to sit on the sidelines”, to dissociate itself from cross-border issues is impossible,” he continued.Thus in veiled form, the Russian Minister threw a stone in the garden “a number of our Western States”, without mentioning them by name. According to Lavrov, some countries do not stop trying “to promote selfish interests to settle scores with geopolitical rivals, to try to change undesirable regimes”.We will remind that earlier Moscow has declared the inadmissibility of politicization of the crisis coronavirus and use it as a pretext for economic and geopolitical pressure on one of the NEC members — China, thus clearly supporting Beijing.”It was supported by the Russian offer to complement a range of subsidiary bodies of the RIC format meetings of the defense Ministers of Russia, India and China. The first such meeting on our proposal was agreed to be held during our presidency, in this year, as soon as will allow the epidemiological situation”,— said Sergey Lavrov following the meeting. In addition, the meeting will host representatives of sanitary and epidemiological structures of the three countries. Decided to strengthen contacts and political analysts.After the talks, “Kommersant” asked Sergei Lavrov, what kind of added value, from the point of view of Russia is in a format RICK in terms of the existence of other international venues for interaction, and whether Moscow is trying with RICK to create an alternative zapamietania model of international relations.Answering the question “Kommersant”, Mr. Lavrov expressed his conviction that the modern world cannot be called zapamietane. “Attempts to make the world zapamietane, clinging to century, to��Yes, through the colonial domination of the West dominated world politics, of course, the West will continue. At least some Western countries. But when we are developing cooperation either in the framework of the SCO or BRICS, or as part of a “Troika” of Russia—India—China, it is not trying to present an alternative to the current system of international relations”,— said Mr. Lavrov, Recalling that the system of international relations enshrined in the UN Charter, “directly encourages the development of regional structures”.”A few years ago I passed the next summit of China and India, where the relations between the countries were classified as strategic partnership, this, in my opinion, already says it all,” said he. Assistance to third countries, including Russia, in resolving differences between India and China want, said Sergei Lavrov. As for the reluctance of India and China to engage in the clinch with West, as assured the Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, do not want Russia. “We don’t want to join with the West in a clinch. We do no one want to join in a clinch. But with the modern West, it is very difficult to work with. I do not see the abilities of some of our Western colleagues, especially those who ‘pay the Piper’ in the Western camp, to develop diplomatic relations. They are more other methods”,— said the Russian Minister.The meeting of the foreign Ministers of RIC countries was the first since the June 16 incident contact senior representatives of Delhi and Beijing with the participation of Moscow, on the one hand, does not claim the role of mediator between them, on the other hand, is still trying to find common points for cooperation between the three leading powers in Eurasia.”While in the crisis of a pandemic, Russia is increasingly supported by China, India, on the contrary, moving away from him, and its position is moving closer to the position of the West trying to impose on Beijing the responsibility for the world crisis caused by the pandemic”,— said “Kommersant” a senior researcher at the Institute of Oriental studies Vladimir Sotnikov.According to the expert, by agreeing to the indisputable thesis of Moscow about inadmissibility “gain unilateral benefits at the expense of safety and the interests of other countries”, the NEC members while divided in their assessment of what countries are trying to “unilateral benefit to the detriment of others.”As previously explained to “Kommersant”, the Ambassador of India in Russia Bala Venkatesh Varma, “in a situation when the world is struggling with coronavirus, becoming more and more obvious that some countries that to a greater degree than others, was able to exploit the opportunities of globalization, today was not ready to bear global responsibility.” According to Mr. Varma, “in this situation, India is interested in changing the nature of global cooperation and considerationet this issue in the near future in the framework of the G20”.”Speaking of “some countries”, reaping the benefits of globalization and at the same time not ready to bear global responsibility, the Indian side clearly has in mind not the United States and the West. It is easy to guess that we are primarily talking about the main rival of India — China. This means that in the future RICK waiting for difficult times”,— explained “Kommersant” Director of the Central Institute of Oriental studies Tatyana Shaumyan.Sergey Strokan, Elena Chernenko