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Putin meets Sonia Gandhi | Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday met Congress President Sonia Gandhi as he began his New Delhi visit eyeing upon boosting strategic and defence ties with India. Putin, who is on a 22-hour visit to India, is expected
to sign over a dozen agreements with India, including an umbrella civil nuclear
pact to construct additional nuclear power stations. The two countries already
have agreements for construction of four nuclear reactors in addition to a pair
of Russian units being built in Tamil Nadu. During his meeting with Putin later
this evening, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is likely to press for access to
Russian nuclear reprocessing technology Other agreements expected to be signed
will be defence pacts as well as that of the price of refurbished aircraft carrier
Admiral Gorshkov. The last meeting between Putin and Dr. Manmohan Singh in Moscow
in December 2009 failed to generate big deals to emulate the landmark oil-for-arms
deal signed by the two countries earlier in the decade. |
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