The meetings took place on the sidelines of a foreign ministerial conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in this northern Chinese city.

“Reviewed our bilateral cooperation and global developments with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov of Russia in Tianjin this afternoon,” Jaishankar said in a social media post.

It is understood that the two foreign ministers also deliberated on the evolving regional security scenario including the situation in West Asia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to visit India later this year for the annual India-Russia summit.

It is not immediately known whether preparations for the visit figured in Jaishankar-Lavrov talks.

In their meeting, Jaishankar and Araghchi are learnt to have discussed the overall situation in West Asia.

“Good to catch up with FM @araghchi of Iran, this time on the sidelines of the SCO Foreign Ministers Meeting in Tianjin,” the external affairs minister said on ‘X’. PTI MPB ZH ZH