Vladimir Putin visited India as President already five times. With the country’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modim already met twice, but outside of India. Despite the change of power in the Russian-Indian relations, there has been no negative changes. On the contrary, Narendra Modi promises to continue the course for rapprochement with Moscow in all areas.
Vladimir Putin assumes that the visit will take place with a predominance of trade and economic issues. Will discuss the expansion of the volume of trade in goods from the sphere of high technologies, which account for 50% of India’s exports to Russia, India building new nuclear power plants, the supply of drugs – India is one of the world leaders in the pharmaceutical industry – and the food, joint development of crude oil, including in the Arctic. In the list of common strategic projects also promote the Indian market Superdżet Russian aircraft Sukhoi 100 and MC-21 GLONASS system implementation in the sectors of the Indian economy, the construction of a “smart city” based on Russian technology. Of course, this is also the issue of increasing the supply to India of Russian energy resources.
Russian and Indian experts have been discussing the possibility of extending the system of great strength Siberian gas pipeline, which will be provided through the supply of Russian gas to China and India. Anyway, the Russian president himself admitted in an interview to PTI that “the price of transport through pipelines can be much greater than the cost of supplies of liquefied natural gas.” Therefore, for the time being seriously can only talk about the enlargement of scale liquefied Russian gas exports to India. Gazprom’s subsidiary – Gazprom Marketing and Trading Singapore – has already concluded an agreement for the supply to India of 2.5 million tonnes of LNG per annum. W
Gazprom also speaks about the probability of increasing the supply.
India is not only a strategic partner of Moscow, but also a country, which has long been Russia permanent link confidential relationship – said Vladimir Putin
In the 65 years of our cooperation, our diplomatic contacts received a particularly privileged partnership. In 2011, the volume of mutual trade in goods amounted to nearly US $ 9 billion. This year will reach $ 10 billion size. In the coming years we should increase the size of the double.
The European Union, by delaying the implementation of, and almost openly sabotaging the construction of South Stream gas pipeline, he said the head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, actually forced Russia to abandonment of the project and the “gas cock gave Turkey.” In India, Russia, in turn, are opened to receive gas ports and warehouses for storage.
In India, as well as Turkey has already pressures that will continue, however, a big mistake to think that Delhi dispenses with Vladimir Putin in favor of Barack Obama. He wrote it on December 9 in the article on the occasion of the visit of the Russian president’s former foreign minister of India Kanwal Sibal. Kanwal Sibal stressed that New Delhi intends to once again signaled Vladimir Putin that Russia has friends who are the same as it used to respect and appreciate it. Not Russia is now the main enemy of the West and democracy, and convince some European capitals and Washington – says Kanwal Sibal
It seems to me, that geopolitical approaches to Russia, the West reveals surprising myopia, as it is Russia is vitally essential factor in ensuring a balance in international relations. India – and I personally – believe that Russia’s role is extremely important in maintaining the balance of power between the great powers.
Kanwal Sibal called absurd assertion Washington and Brussels that Moscow because of the sanctions was in complete isolation on the international scene. The European Union population of 500 million people. In the United States and Canada still living 350 million. China’s population is 1 billion 370 million – that is the size of two European Union and the United States and Canada together. India’s population is slightly smaller and is 1 billion 263 million. So far as one-third of the entire population of Earth. In addition, there are Latin America, where some countries are also not going to be subject to Washington and Brussels. Can this be considered as insulation?
Putin in India: Delhi Russian president will not turn on Barack Obama – The Voice of Russia
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