Russia, India, China discussing energy security.

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BANGALORE, October 27 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia, India and the Republic of
China have agreed to coordinate approaches to ensuring reliable energy
security, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said here on Tuesday,
commenting on the results of a tripartite meeting of foreign ministers of
Russia, India and China.
"We agreed to coordinate our efforts, aimed at creating a more
democratic system both in the sphere of finances and in the security
sphere. We agreed to coordinate our approaches to international
discussions on ensuring reliable energy security and on problems of
climate changing," he said.
According to Lavrov, the ministers were unanimous in their opinion
that the world financial crisis was the result of the discrepancy between
the global architecture, created after World War II, and the present-day
situation. Lavrov said as well that participants in the discussion in the
Russia-India-China format had discussed the situation in the Korean
Peninsula and around Iran. "We have coinciding approaches regarding
diplomatic methods of settling the situation in the Korean Peninsula and
the Iranian nuclear programme," Lavrov said.
Lavrov reminded that it was the ninth meeting in the
Russia-India-China (RIC) format. "One could state that RIC has become an
international format and an important factor in the formation in the
multi-polar world structure," he said. According to his information, a
joint communique was adopted at the current meeting, which recorded in
detail the approaches of the three countries to international regional
problems.
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