New Delhi (Reuters) - India has agreed to buy dozens of Russian military helicopters and fighter planes meeting at a summit on Monday, underlining the stability of relations Entre long-standing allies, despite New Delhi's recent moves to diversify its suppliers weapons of ICT.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a strategic partnership between their countries at a summit in New Delhi, and joined the global issues joint statement the nuclear ambitions of Iran, Syria enthusiasm.
Proposals to strengthen long-term strategic alliance based on shared suspicion of China - even though Russia has recently courted former enemy of India, Pakistan and India, are turning to the United States and Europe because of frustration with Russian arms.
"Russia is an important partner in our efforts to modernize our armed forces," Singh said in a statement welcomed Putin as "a good friend and the original architect of the Indo-Russian strategic partnership."
Sixty percent of the weapons in India still come from an end-user market, Russia has begun to look abroad up in recent years in an attempt to cope with the growing economic power of ICT to military power, and distrust next giant China in the eyes of ICT.
"It 's clear that New Delhi has taken to diversify its arms suppliers, competition intensifies. Russia is ready for it," Russian Ambassador to India Alexander Kadakin, said in an interview published in the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday.
Despite the rhetoric session Feelgood-day, there are many strains of business the two countries, including Russia's efforts to improve relations with Pakistan, India rival.
India-have been frustrated by the delays in the delivery of Soviet-built aircraft carrier restored, which is now scheduled for the end of 2013, and former Russian food aussi suffers from a problem with the service and the lack of spare parts.
Separately, the Russian group system in New Delhi warned this month that the lack of progress in the struggle for telecommunications licenses that bilateral relations are at risk.
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Russian defense industry sources expect Putin's visit to New Delhi, the first since the start of a new six-year term in the Kremlin in May, will produce a deal to sell military aircraft and aircraft engines to more than 7,500 billion.
There was a proposal on Monday to keep up with this amount, though.
A Kremlin source said that Russia will sell India 71 Mi-17, V-5 military helicopters worth $ 1.3 billion, and the parts kits cost $ 1.6 trillion received 42 Su-30MKI fighters. The original proposal was for the jets last year, I agree.
Russian sources of the defense sector and the media said that the multi-billion dollar deal to supply engines for long almost 1,000 fighters signed or a decline in the first visit had been signed in October.
Purpose Chemezov, head of Russian groups state technology, including weapons exports Rosoboronexport, told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting in New Delhi that the work on contracts for the supply of engines continues.
Separately, Russian Direct Investment Fund (RFPI) - National Insurance Fund - and the lender State Bank of India India has agreed to invest up to $ 2 billion together in order to promote trade and economic cooperation.
Putin announced weapons sales record this year wants to limit the loss of their business goals with Libya and longtime customer uncertainty of Syria for the defense industry, a major source of political support for it.
Putin, whose country holds the presidency of the G20 this month, aussi expects a significant increase in the volume of trade with India.
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