671 Tribune News Service New Delhi, July 9 In the run-up to this year’s summit meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Valdimir Putin, Foreign Ministers of India and Russia on Friday discussed the Indo-Pacific, Afghanistan and vaccine certificates for foreign travel. They also reviewed the progress in their bilateral strong-points of defence, space, nuclear energy and petroleum. Committed to centrality, unity of ASEAN Because of larger geopolitical compatibility with Russia, we see a more active Russian presence and participation in the region as something very important. We are very much committed to the centrality and unity of ASEAN. S Jaishankar, external affairs minister