NEW DELHI, March 12: Foreign Ministers of India, Russia and China will hold their first “stand-alone” trilateral meeting in Russia’s Pacific port of Vladivostok in June, Press Trust of India said on Saturday.

It quoted Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran as saying in Moscow that the meeting would be preceded by a business meeting of the three countries in New Delhi next month.

“This would be for the first time a stand-alone trilateral meeting and this adds certain significance to it. Earlier three such meetings were held on the sidelines of UN General Assembly and CICA in Almaty,” Mr. Saran said at the end of his Moscow leg of three-day Russia visit.

Mr Saran clarified that none of the three wanted to forge an alliance. But they have a convergence of views on a large number of issues of present day life, including multi-polar world order and multi-laterality in resolving key international problems.

He did not rule out that as part of their economic and commercial cooperation India, China and Russia could jointly work in the development of Central Asian energy resources.