New Delhi, May 14 -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar held high-level talks in New Delhi on Wednesday focused on expanding bilateral cooperation in energy, trade, technology and strategic connectivity, as both countries pushed back against mounting Western pressure on global energy markets and geopolitical alliances.

The meeting took place on the sidelines of the BRICS foreign ministers meeting in the Indian capital, where officials from emerging economies gathered amid escalating instability in West Asia, fears of disruptions to global oil supplies and intensifying geopolitical divisions between the West and the Global South.

Jaishankar said after the meeting that both ...