BHARAT, RUSSIA TO SIGN 10 PACTS DURING VAJPAYEE'S VISIT

India, Russia to sign 10 pacts during Vajpayee's Moscow visit

Report
The Free Press Journal
Tuesday, November 11, 2003

Indraprasth - Carrying forward their strategic
partnership to mew heights, India and Russia will sign
ten agreements and a joint statement in Moscow during the
three-day ‘substantive' visit of Prime Minister Atal
Behari Vajpayee from Tuesday.

The two sides will also ink a Declaration on Global
Challenges to deal with issues relating to security and
stability,  Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal told a press
conference here.  Vajpayee, who heads to Moscow for the
annual summit on the first leg of his three-nation week
long tour that also take him to Tajikistan and Syria,
would meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for the
fourth time in the last one year, reflecting the ‘new
dimension' the close bilateral relations have acquired.
Observing that the Indo-Russia defence cooperation has
transcended from a buyer-seller relationship, he said the
defence ties between the two countries would be reviewed
at the highest level. Asked whether the deal for
purchasing aircraft carrier "Admiral Gorshkov' would be
finalised during the visit, Sibal parried the question,
saying the Defence ministry would make an announcement
‘at the appropriate time'.

Sibal said the accords to be signed covered cooperation
in science and technology, space , industry,
establishment of an Indo-Russian Centre for earth-quake
research, joint publication of bilateral archival
documents and inter-banking arrangements.  External
Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha and senior officials will
accompany the Prime Minister. Vajpayee had met Putin in
December here, in May this year at St. Petersburg and
again on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session
in New York in September.  On the issue of civilian
nuclear cooperation in the field of energy, he said both
sides were interested in stepping up ties in this hi-tech
area.  India was interested in acquiring more Russian
nuclear power reactors, he said but added that the
problem that persisted was Moscow's international
obligations under the Nuclear Suppliers Group, an issue
similar to the one confronting France.  "It is a problem
to which we have not found any solution".

Vajpayee will have a one-to-one dinner meeting with Putin
on Tuesday before getting into delegation-level talks the
next day.  Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and
Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov will call on the Prime
Minister during his stay in the Russian capital.

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