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Russia and India have signed a package of cooperation agreements in the framework of Vladimir Putin’s visit to New Delhi, according to the Voice of Russia correspondent.
The two countries have specifically signed a memorandum of understanding between the Russian Direct Investment Fund and the State Bank of India. The two will invest in joint projects one billion dollars each. The Russian and Indian Ministries of Culture have signed a cultural exchange programme for 2013 through 2015, while the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Science and Technology of India have signed a memorandum of cooperation in the field of science, technology and innovations. An agreement was also concluded on the sidelines of the summit on setting up a joint venture by the Helicopters of Russia Company and India’s Elcom Systems Private Ltd. Moscow, Delhi in Syria dialogue call, President Vladimir Putin and Russia and India call on world powers to comply with the Syria resolutions of the UN Security Council and the decisions of the Geneva conference on Syria. They believe there is no way out of the Syrian crisis other than a national political dialogue. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said this in a joint statement issued after their talks in New Delhi on Monday. According to the United Nations, the Syrian conflict has claimed 20,000 to 30,000 lives since first erupting 21 months ago. The Syrian government says foreign-backed terrorists are at work. Russia, India to foster military ties: “We have agreed to step up Indian-Russia and India have made a commitment to foster bilateral military and technical cooperation, Russian President Putin has said in the wake of his Monday meeting with PM Manmohan Singh. Russian cooperation in military and technical spheres, to work on new projects through joint ventures and know-hows exchange,” Mr. Putin said. He cited the fresh deal between a Russian state-run chopper maker and India on exports of helicopter units and equipment. India has agreed to purchase 71 MiG-17B-5 helicopters worth 1.3 billion dollars. Russia is also to deliver to India 1.6-billion-dollar plane units to organize the licensed assembly of Su-30MKI jet fighters. Putin stakes on India visit as relations catalyst: Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes his visit to India will serve to promote bilateral relations in all areas. He told the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during their talks in New Delhi earlier today that he is certain that both nations will stand to benefit by today’s summit-level meetings, according to the Voice of Russia correspondent. Putin pointed out that Russia and India have decided to reach a 10 billion-dollar trade turnover in the next few years. We take a special pride in the fact that this also applies to military-technological cooperation, where trading is in large amounts, but
what’s even more important is the fiduciary nature of cooperation, he said. Manmohan Singh confirmed for his part that India pays great attention to relations with Russia. “I’m sure today’s meetings will benefit the both nations and speed up our bilateral relations,” the Russian leader told India’s PM Manmohan Singh Monday. Mr. Putin reminded the Indian prime minister of their common goal of pushing bilateral goods turnover up to 10 billion dollars amid a more balanced trade relationship between the two countries. “We are particularly proud of our military and technical cooperation and ensuing high turnover in this sphere. But it’s that atmosphere of trust, and not just trade volumes, that really count,” Mr. Putin stressed. “It’s clear that our relations are gaining momentum in all spheres of cooperation,” he added. India’s PM Manmohan Singh said he believed this momentum will surge and called the tradition of official visits a key catalyst in the Russia-India relationship. “India is paying a lot of attention to its ties with Russia,” he confessed, praising Mr. Putin for his contribution into this cause. Russian atomic official pledges safety of India’s Kudankulam NPP : The chief of Russia’s atomic energy giant Rosatom, Sergei Kiriyenko, has assured journalists that the corporation had implement all of the post-Fukushima safety recommendations, when building the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in southern India, Voice of Russia’s Anna Forostenko says. President Putin has called strengthening Russian-Indian ties a “privileged partnership,” Anna Forostenko has cited the Russian leader as saying during his meeting with India’s PM Manmohan. He added that Russia’s equipment exports to India had surged 40% over 2012. According to the Russian president, high-tech goods constituted some 40% of all bilateral turnover. The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and the State Bank of India (SBI) today announced they were planning to set up a $2-billion investment consortium. RDIF’s CEO KIrill Dmitriyev vowed to boost bilateral trade between the nations to 20 from 10 billion dollar over the next three years. Putin starts talks with India PM: Russian President Vladimir Putin has started talks with India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Before the meeting, the two leaders greeted each other in the inner yard of the prime minister’s residence and posed for a brief photo session. Mr. Putin and Mr. Singh are to be joined later by delegations of the both nations. This get-together is the first meeting on Putin’s Indian agenda. On Monday, the Russian president will meet his Indian counterpart, Indian National Congress’s Sonia Gandhi and opposition leader Sushma Swaraj. Putin starts official visit to India: Russian President Vladimir Putin has begun his official visit to India.He is due to hold talks with President Pranab Mukherjee abd Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on cementing bilateral cooperation in New Delhi later today. The parties to the talks will focus on energy, investment, military- technological cooperation, as well as topical international problems. Russia and India are strategic partners: The two countries’ bilateral trade turnover has grown six - fold since the year 2000, and is expected to reach 10 billion dollars this year. A number of agreements are due to be signed in the wake of the New Delhi talks, including those in the field of military-technological and cultural cooperation. India and Russia: new prospects for strategic partnership in the 21st century : I am glad to have an opportunity to An article by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin published December 24 by India’s leading English-language newspaper The Hindu. address the readers of one of the most influential Indian newspapers – The Hindu. As my visit to New Delhi is beginning, I would like to outline approaches to further development of strategic partnership between India and Russia. This year marked the 65 th anniversary of diplomatic relations between our countries. During the past decades we have acquired a vast experience of joint work and achieved progress in a range of fields. Political epochs were changing but the principles of bilateral ties, such as mutual confidence and equality, remained the same. I would like to stress that deepening of friendship and cooperation with India is among the top priorities of our foreign policy. And now we have every reason to say that they have really unique special and privileged character. The Declaration on Strategic Partnership between India and Russia signed in October 2000 became a truly historic step. The developments in the first decade of the 21 st century confirmed that it was a particularly significant and timely step. In fact, today we, the whole civilization, face serious challenges. These are unbalanced global development, economic and social instability, lack of confidence and security. In that situation India and Russia show an example of responsible leadership and collective actions in the international arena. We have a common goal – to make the world we live in more just, democratic and secure and to facilitate resolving global and regional problems, including the situation in the Middle East and North Africa, and in Afghanistan. I would like to note that our joint work in the BRICS becomes
BRICS is an international political organisation of leading emerging economies, arising out of the inclusion of South Africa into the BRIC: Image Link Wikimedia
increasingly intensive. The authority of that association is growing every year, and that is quite natural. Our proposed initiatives are aimed at establishing new architecture of multipolar world order. The same constructive approach is also reflected in our interaction in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and other multilateral formats. We expect a meaningful dialogue with Indian side within the framework of Russia’s presidency in the G20 that has begun. Joint steps in the international arena, participation in the development of rules of global trade and enhancing business, scientific and technological and humanitarian ties form the basis for achieving a new quality of partnership. We attach particular significance to bilateral trade and investment relations. The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects. Our trade turnover has overcome the consequences of global crisis, and in 2012 we expect to reach record numbers, over 10 billion USD. Our next goal is to reach 20 billion USD already by 2015. To this end, we should engage all reserves and maintain direct contacts between business communities and promote establishing efficient investment, technological and industry alliances in the most dynamic and promising fields. For instance, in energy industry, primarily nuclear one. The construction of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant with the use of the most reliable and up-to-date technologies and standards became a major breakthrough project in that field. The beginning of operation of the first power unit of that plant will allow to significantly reduce the energy deficiency in southern states of India, and eventually eliminate it completely, after the launch of the second and other power units. We expect that the implementation of our arrangements on the construction of new NPPs in India will begin in the nearest future. We hope for significant returns from long-term projects in steel industry, hydrocarbon production, car and aircraft manufacturing, chemical and pharmaceuticals industries, in the field of information and biotechnologies. Important benchmarks are set in the Integrated Long-Term Program of Cooperation in the sphere of science, technology and innovation until 2020. Its main task is to ensure that our scientists conduct fundamental and applied research in order to create new technologies, equipment and materials. The joint operation of Russian global navigation satellite system GLONASS opens up broad prospects. The package of respective bilateral agreements has already been signed. We intend to promote practical interaction in that important area. The strategic nature of partnership between India and Russia is witnessed by the unprecedented level of our military and technical cooperation. The licensed production and joint development of advanced armaments rather than just purchasing military products becomes a key area of activities. Serious attention is paid to developing a fifth generation multifunctional fighter plane and a multipurpose transport aircraft. The product of our designers, the "BrahMos" cruise missile, has successfully passed all tests. Today experts are thinking on its aircraft version. I am confident that such a multivector cooperation will allow our countries not only to reach leading positions as a range of hi-technology projects are concerned, but will help to successfully advance joint products to markets of third countries. Humanitarian cooperation has a particular significance for India and Russia, which are States with great cultural heritage and potential. The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. In its turn, Indian citizens with interest discover the wealth of Russian music, literature and art. The Festival of Russian Culture in India and All-Russian Festival of Modern Cinema and Culture of India which were successfully held this year have convincingly proved it once again. I am confident that awareness-raising and educational projects should be more actively promoted and tourism and youth exchanges developed. In fact, they enrich our citizens and add new contents to human dimension of bilateral relations which becomes all the more significant and relevant today. The India-Russia summit in New Delhi was preceded by painstaking and comprehensive preparations. We have a clear vision of major vectors of future-oriented joint work. I am confident that summit talks will be constructive, as they always were, and their outcome will give a powerful impetus to strategic partnership for the benefit of our two countries and peoples, in the interests of peace and stability in Eurasia and on our common planet. I will take the liberty to outline joint prospects for strategic partnership between India and Russia in the 21 st century. These are deepening of cooperation in knowledge-intensive fields based on strong historic traditions, advancement of joint products to international markets, further increasing of the share of high value added products in the trade turnover, enhancing the role and effectiveness of Indian-Russian interaction in international affairs, and the widest possible realization of the potential of cultural and humanitarian contacts. I sincerely wish to the people of friendly India peace, well-being and new impressive achievements. Source: Voice of Russia
The two countries have specifically signed a memorandum of understanding between the Russian Direct Investment Fund and the State Bank of India. The two will invest in joint projects one billion dollars each. The Russian and Indian Ministries of Culture have signed a cultural exchange programme for 2013 through 2015, while the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Science and Technology of India have signed a memorandum of cooperation in the field of science, technology and innovations. An agreement was also concluded on the sidelines of the summit on setting up a joint venture by the Helicopters of Russia Company and India’s Elcom Systems Private Ltd. Moscow, Delhi in Syria dialogue call, President Vladimir Putin and Russia and India call on world powers to comply with the Syria resolutions of the UN Security Council and the decisions of the Geneva conference on Syria. They believe there is no way out of the Syrian crisis other than a national political dialogue. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said this in a joint statement issued after their talks in New Delhi on Monday. According to the United Nations, the Syrian conflict has claimed 20,000 to 30,000 lives since first erupting 21 months ago. The Syrian government says foreign-backed terrorists are at work. Russia, India to foster military ties: “We have agreed to step up Indian-Russia and India have made a commitment to foster bilateral military and technical cooperation, Russian President Putin has said in the wake of his Monday meeting with PM Manmohan Singh. Russian cooperation in military and technical spheres, to work on new projects through joint ventures and know-hows exchange,” Mr. Putin said. He cited the fresh deal between a Russian state-run chopper maker and India on exports of helicopter units and equipment. India has agreed to purchase 71 MiG-17B-5 helicopters worth 1.3 billion dollars. Russia is also to deliver to India 1.6-billion-dollar plane units to organize the licensed assembly of Su-30MKI jet fighters. Putin stakes on India visit as relations catalyst: Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes his visit to India will serve to promote bilateral relations in all areas. He told the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during their talks in New Delhi earlier today that he is certain that both nations will stand to benefit by today’s summit-level meetings, according to the Voice of Russia correspondent. Putin pointed out that Russia and India have decided to reach a 10 billion-dollar trade turnover in the next few years. We take a special pride in the fact that this also applies to military-technological cooperation, where trading is in large amounts, but
what’s even more important is the fiduciary nature of cooperation, he said. Manmohan Singh confirmed for his part that India pays great attention to relations with Russia. “I’m sure today’s meetings will benefit the both nations and speed up our bilateral relations,” the Russian leader told India’s PM Manmohan Singh Monday. Mr. Putin reminded the Indian prime minister of their common goal of pushing bilateral goods turnover up to 10 billion dollars amid a more balanced trade relationship between the two countries. “We are particularly proud of our military and technical cooperation and ensuing high turnover in this sphere. But it’s that atmosphere of trust, and not just trade volumes, that really count,” Mr. Putin stressed. “It’s clear that our relations are gaining momentum in all spheres of cooperation,” he added. India’s PM Manmohan Singh said he believed this momentum will surge and called the tradition of official visits a key catalyst in the Russia-India relationship. “India is paying a lot of attention to its ties with Russia,” he confessed, praising Mr. Putin for his contribution into this cause. Russian atomic official pledges safety of India’s Kudankulam NPP : The chief of Russia’s atomic energy giant Rosatom, Sergei Kiriyenko, has assured journalists that the corporation had implement all of the post-Fukushima safety recommendations, when building the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in southern India, Voice of Russia’s Anna Forostenko says. President Putin has called strengthening Russian-Indian ties a “privileged partnership,” Anna Forostenko has cited the Russian leader as saying during his meeting with India’s PM Manmohan. He added that Russia’s equipment exports to India had surged 40% over 2012. According to the Russian president, high-tech goods constituted some 40% of all bilateral turnover. The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and the State Bank of India (SBI) today announced they were planning to set up a $2-billion investment consortium. RDIF’s CEO KIrill Dmitriyev vowed to boost bilateral trade between the nations to 20 from 10 billion dollar over the next three years. Putin starts talks with India PM: Russian President Vladimir Putin has started talks with India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Before the meeting, the two leaders greeted each other in the inner yard of the prime minister’s residence and posed for a brief photo session. Mr. Putin and Mr. Singh are to be joined later by delegations of the both nations. This get-together is the first meeting on Putin’s Indian agenda. On Monday, the Russian president will meet his Indian counterpart, Indian National Congress’s Sonia Gandhi and opposition leader Sushma Swaraj. Putin starts official visit to India: Russian President Vladimir Putin has begun his official visit to India.He is due to hold talks with President Pranab Mukherjee abd Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on cementing bilateral cooperation in New Delhi later today. The parties to the talks will focus on energy, investment, military- technological cooperation, as well as topical international problems. Russia and India are strategic partners: The two countries’ bilateral trade turnover has grown six - fold since the year 2000, and is expected to reach 10 billion dollars this year. A number of agreements are due to be signed in the wake of the New Delhi talks, including those in the field of military-technological and cultural cooperation. India and Russia: new prospects for strategic partnership in the 21st century : I am glad to have an opportunity to An article by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin published December 24 by India’s leading English-language newspaper The Hindu. address the readers of one of the most influential Indian newspapers – The Hindu. As my visit to New Delhi is beginning, I would like to outline approaches to further development of strategic partnership between India and Russia. This year marked the 65 th anniversary of diplomatic relations between our countries. During the past decades we have acquired a vast experience of joint work and achieved progress in a range of fields. Political epochs were changing but the principles of bilateral ties, such as mutual confidence and equality, remained the same. I would like to stress that deepening of friendship and cooperation with India is among the top priorities of our foreign policy. And now we have every reason to say that they have really unique special and privileged character. The Declaration on Strategic Partnership between India and Russia signed in October 2000 became a truly historic step. The developments in the first decade of the 21 st century confirmed that it was a particularly significant and timely step. In fact, today we, the whole civilization, face serious challenges. These are unbalanced global development, economic and social instability, lack of confidence and security. In that situation India and Russia show an example of responsible leadership and collective actions in the international arena. We have a common goal – to make the world we live in more just, democratic and secure and to facilitate resolving global and regional problems, including the situation in the Middle East and North Africa, and in Afghanistan. I would like to note that our joint work in the BRICS becomes
BRICS is an international political organisation of leading emerging economies, arising out of the inclusion of South Africa into the BRIC: Image Link Wikimedia
increasingly intensive. The authority of that association is growing every year, and that is quite natural. Our proposed initiatives are aimed at establishing new architecture of multipolar world order. The same constructive approach is also reflected in our interaction in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and other multilateral formats. We expect a meaningful dialogue with Indian side within the framework of Russia’s presidency in the G20 that has begun. Joint steps in the international arena, participation in the development of rules of global trade and enhancing business, scientific and technological and humanitarian ties form the basis for achieving a new quality of partnership. We attach particular significance to bilateral trade and investment relations. The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects. Our trade turnover has overcome the consequences of global crisis, and in 2012 we expect to reach record numbers, over 10 billion USD. Our next goal is to reach 20 billion USD already by 2015. To this end, we should engage all reserves and maintain direct contacts between business communities and promote establishing efficient investment, technological and industry alliances in the most dynamic and promising fields. For instance, in energy industry, primarily nuclear one. The construction of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant with the use of the most reliable and up-to-date technologies and standards became a major breakthrough project in that field. The beginning of operation of the first power unit of that plant will allow to significantly reduce the energy deficiency in southern states of India, and eventually eliminate it completely, after the launch of the second and other power units. We expect that the implementation of our arrangements on the construction of new NPPs in India will begin in the nearest future. We hope for significant returns from long-term projects in steel industry, hydrocarbon production, car and aircraft manufacturing, chemical and pharmaceuticals industries, in the field of information and biotechnologies. Important benchmarks are set in the Integrated Long-Term Program of Cooperation in the sphere of science, technology and innovation until 2020. Its main task is to ensure that our scientists conduct fundamental and applied research in order to create new technologies, equipment and materials. The joint operation of Russian global navigation satellite system GLONASS opens up broad prospects. The package of respective bilateral agreements has already been signed. We intend to promote practical interaction in that important area. The strategic nature of partnership between India and Russia is witnessed by the unprecedented level of our military and technical cooperation. The licensed production and joint development of advanced armaments rather than just purchasing military products becomes a key area of activities. Serious attention is paid to developing a fifth generation multifunctional fighter plane and a multipurpose transport aircraft. The product of our designers, the "BrahMos" cruise missile, has successfully passed all tests. Today experts are thinking on its aircraft version. I am confident that such a multivector cooperation will allow our countries not only to reach leading positions as a range of hi-technology projects are concerned, but will help to successfully advance joint products to markets of third countries. Humanitarian cooperation has a particular significance for India and Russia, which are States with great cultural heritage and potential. The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. In its turn, Indian citizens with interest discover the wealth of Russian music, literature and art. The Festival of Russian Culture in India and All-Russian Festival of Modern Cinema and Culture of India which were successfully held this year have convincingly proved it once again. I am confident that awareness-raising and educational projects should be more actively promoted and tourism and youth exchanges developed. In fact, they enrich our citizens and add new contents to human dimension of bilateral relations which becomes all the more significant and relevant today. The India-Russia summit in New Delhi was preceded by painstaking and comprehensive preparations. We have a clear vision of major vectors of future-oriented joint work. I am confident that summit talks will be constructive, as they always were, and their outcome will give a powerful impetus to strategic partnership for the benefit of our two countries and peoples, in the interests of peace and stability in Eurasia and on our common planet. I will take the liberty to outline joint prospects for strategic partnership between India and Russia in the 21 st century. These are deepening of cooperation in knowledge-intensive fields based on strong historic traditions, advancement of joint products to international markets, further increasing of the share of high value added products in the trade turnover, enhancing the role and effectiveness of Indian-Russian interaction in international affairs, and the widest possible realization of the potential of cultural and humanitarian contacts. I sincerely wish to the people of friendly India peace, well-being and new impressive achievements. Source: Voice of Russia
