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Russian
president arrives today, to sign space, energy deals
Monday December 20, 2010 07:14:51 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev will arrive here late Monday
night, with a planeload of high-level ministers, officials and
businessmen, aiming to wrap up agreements in areas from civilian
nuclear energy, to hydrocarbons, to space and defence.
Medvedev's special aircraft will touch down in Delhi, a few
minutes after midnight Monday. He will hold formal talks with
Manmohan Singh Tuesday morning - which will the eleventh edition
of the annual bilateral summits which started with declaration of
strategic partnership in 2000.
Also on Tuesday, Medvedev will travel to Agra, before moving on to
to Mumbai. In India's commercial capital, he will visit the Indian
Institute of Technology and Film City.
"India is quite satisfied by the first decade of strategic
partnership. This summit will firm up the blueprint for the next
decade," external affairs ministry spokesperson Vishnu Prakash
said here Sunday.
He added that a "number of agreements" would be signed, with
discussions ongoing in areas like "space, economic and defence
sectors". Prakash described nuclear energy and hydrocarbons as the
"twin pillars for long-term strategic energy partnership" between
India and Russia.
Earlier, Russian envoy to India, Alexander Kadakin said Russia was
upbeat about building 14-16 nuclear reactors in India over the
next few years, but asked New Delhi to bring its civilian nuclear
liability legislation in line with global norms.
The two countries would ink an accord under which Russia would set
up two more 1,000 MW units at Kudankulam, Kadakin had stated.
On Sunday, MEA's joint secretary (Eurasia) Ajay Bisariya told
reporters that talks for technical and commercial for third and
fourth reactors at Kudankulam nuclear power plant "were on". "The
first unit will go critical soon, followed by second unit," he
said.
Further, he added that negotiations were on for the second site
for setting up a nuclear power plant with Russian help.
The MEA official noted that the India was "waiting for substantial
progress" on deals related to visa facilitation agreement,
recognition for Russian medical diplomas and degrees and illegal
migration.
On the fifth generation fighter aircraft, Prakash demurred on
whether an agreement would be signed during the current visit.
"That is a long term project of advanced manufacturing and it will
have a number of milestones in it and we don't know whether one or
two of them will be achieved during the meeting here," he said.
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