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“Russia regards India as a deserving and strong candidate that can bring an independent and responsible approach within the UN Security Council and reaffirms its strong support to India’s candidature for a permanent seat in a reformed UNSC”, it said. However, energy and defense topped the agenda. The two held talks at the Pak PM’s home at Raiwind.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, visited Russia’s National Crisis Management Centre (NCMC), also known as EMERCOM, in Moscow and was given a rundown on how it works.
A report last week said that India’s top acquisition body had cleared the purchase of Russia’s most advanced S-400 air defense systems.
Putin said Unit-II of Kudankulam atomic plant in Tamil Nadu, being built by Russian Federation, will be commissioned within weeks and negotiations are at the advanced stage for Unit III and IV. Saying India wants to extend its ties with Russian Federation beyond hydrocarbons, the Prime Minister said, New Delhi wants to take this partnership forward to hard carbons to foster diamond trade.
Modi carefully and deliberately emphasized that a landmark defense pact signed today for the joint manufacture of 200 Russian attack helicopters was “rightly with our most important defense partner”. He recalled that Moscow had “strongly supported India’s accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and that the two countries were actively cooperating within the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), where India will take the rotating presidency in February 2016”.
Among the agreements on Thursday, state-run OAO Rosneft and India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corp. signed a memorandum of understanding on joint exploration and production at oil and gas fields in Russian Federation, including offshore projects.
He said that those who say that Prime Minister has gone to Pakistan to celebrate the birthday of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, they should also mention that he had celebrated Diwali with the soldiers on the border.
Putin, on his part, expressed happiness over two countries going ahead “consistently and confidently” in developing the privileged strategic partnership.
“We dream of making India strong enough to export defense equipment to the world”, he said in public remarks. At present, the private sectors of both countries are looking for a relationship that is more explorative, innovative, dynamic and entrepreneurial.
President Putin and I are confident we will see an increase in trade and investment between our two countries. He called it a “very big priority” for both parties. “A number of Russian and Indian companies are working together”, he said.
The prime minister said he and the Russian president were “moving creatively in expanding our economic relations”. “Our friendship with Russian Federation can create prosperity in the whole Eurasian area”, he stated.
