India, Aug. 20 -- Roman Babushkin, deputy chief of mission of Russian embassy in India, welcomed Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi's visit to India. He said the 'Russia-India-China' is an "important mechanism" and that Russia hopes that it will be resumed "sooner rather than later".

He called Wang Yi's visit to India "very successful".

Wang Yi was on a two-day visit to India from August 18-19 and met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, national security advisor Ajit Doval, and external affairs minister S Jaishankar, among other dignitaries. During his meeting with PM Modi, Yi handed an invitation from President Xi for the SCO Summit being held in Tianjin.

Babushkin also addressed the United States' punishing 50% tariffs on India, half of whic...