Putin's India trip put off to December

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Putin's India trip put off to December

Diplomatic sources say problems with Kundankulam’s 3rd and 4th reactors and Sistema’s 2G license cancellation at the root of the postponement.

Russian President has postponed his visit to New Delhi by about 8 weeks, Russian and Indian officials said on Tuesday. The Russian Government conveyed to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs that the visit was postponed due to a “domestic issue.”

Senior officials in the Russian and Indian governments told RIR that the postponement had to do with the Russian president’s unhappiness with the outcome of Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin’s visit to India. On Monday, rumours about an indefinite postponement were doing the rounds in diplomatic circles, but spokesmen for both the Russian Embassy in New Delhi and the Indian Embassy in Moscow denied such talk. Certain Indian diplomatic sources had even hinted that such rumours were at the behest of elements in Pakistan disgruntled with the fact that Putin indefinitely put off a visit to that country.

The likely causes of the postponement are what Russia considers India’s lack of initiative in solving Sistema’s 2G license suspension and the fact that India decided to include the 3rd and 4th units of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant within the new civil nuclear liability law. While it is unlikely that India will change its stance on the reactors or take a more proactive role in the Sistema case, the two sides agreed to December 24 as the date of the Russian president’s visit to New Delhi.

While diplomatic relations between Russia and India remain strong, Moscow has been wary of what it considers a cosying up of relations between New Delhi and the United States. The postponement of Putin’s visit after a series of preparatory meetings were held in the Indian capital is unlikely to go down well with the Indian Government.

A host of Russian cultural programmes that were due to coincide with the Russian president’s visit will be held as planned.

 

[prabhakar]

Boycott of India has started .

 

[SpArK]

Putin to visit India in December
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NEW DELHI, 22 OCT: Russian President Mr Vladmir Putin (in file photo) will pay an official visit to India on 24 December. This was announced by the ministry of external affairs today in a Press release.
Mr Putin’s visit to India is a highly anticipated one with the expectations that a few major defence deals would be signed during the trip and also that the contentious issues of the Koodankulam nuclear plant will be discussed.


A $3.77 billion deal for the supply of 40 SU-30MKI Russian fighter aircraft to India is likely to be signed during President Putin’s visit, according to sources.


India and Russian defence ties are likely to get a major boost with this agreement. Russia remains India’s largest supplier of military equipment despite the entry of US and Israel, which have also become major suppliers of military hardware to India.

Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin was in the Capital recently and held talks with external affairs minister S M Krishna. However, according to sources, Russia is not too happy with India wanting the Unit III and IV of the Koodankulam plant to be covered under its civil nuclear liability law.
Russia’s argument is that the civil nuclear liability law should not apply to these two Units as the agreement on them predates the 2010 civil liability law, and could be seen as “grandfathered” by the original 1988 agreement. However, India is concerned that a concession to Russia might give other countries like the US and France to also seek concessions.


Also, apparently keeping in mind Mr Putin’s visit, the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) last week cleared proposals worth over Rs 8,000 crore for procuring military hardware from Russia.
The proposals include procuring around 10,000 ‘Invar’ missiles from Russia for the Army’s T-90 tanks and over 200 air-launched versions of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles for the Indian Air Force, according to sources in the government.



Putin to visit India in December

 

[Crypto]

Kudankulam sparks ‘nuclear winter’, Putin defers visit

NEW DELHI: In a sudden and unexpected move, Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to postpone his much-awaited summit meet with PM Manmohan Singh by close to two months. The meet, which was scheduled to take place on November 1 and for which groundwork had been completed during deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin's visit to India last week, will now take place on December 24.

The Russians conveyed to the ministry of external affairs (MEA) on Monday that Putin will not be able to visit India on November 1 because of some pressing "domestic issue". TOI had learnt on Friday that since Moscow was not pleased with the outcome of Rogozin's visit, Putin may decide to delay his India visit.

MEA officials, however, seemed confident even until Friday that Putin would come for his day-long visit in November, even suggesting that talks of postponement could be rumours originating from across the border (Pakistan). Interestingly, Putin postponed what would have been his first visit to Pakistan last month apparently on a request from Indian authorities, who were concerned that the Pakistan visit may mar the atmospherics for India-Russia summit early next month. This had led to much heartburn in Pakistan, as obvious from reports in its media.

"The Russians conveyed to us that the president won't be able to come as scheduled but the positive thing is that we have been able to work out a new date," said an official.

Rogozin had openly expressed displeasure with Indian policies on both the contentious issues of Kudankulam and Sistema after his talks with foreign minister S M Krishna, saying that rules of the game should not be changed before the game is over. As TOI had reported last week, the talks also saw India for the first time officially communicating to the Russians that any techno-commercial agreement for the third and fourth units at Kudankulam will have to take into account that these reactors are going to be covered by the nuclear liability law.

While the Russians had been maintaining that the cost of the reactors will go up substantially if suppliers are made accountable for compensation, they were still hoping that the two sides would be able to circumvent, if not override, the liability provisions through some arrangement that will acknowledge Moscow's contribution to India's nuclear power industry even during times of adversity.

Ahead of his visit, replying to a query from TOI, Rogozin had recalled how Russia supplied fuel to Tarapur in 2001 and 2006 even against "the storm of Western criticism". Compared to the US and France, Russia has also been more inclined to India's demand for transfer of enrichment and reprocessing technology. In fact, Rogozin said in the same interview that this aspect is fully covered under the 2010 agreement between the two countries.

Kudankulam sparks ‘nuclear winter’, Putin defers visit - The Times of India

 

[SinoChallenger]

First india tried to backstab Putin by claiming Russia is responsible for india's aircraft carrier blowing up.

Then india begged and begged Putin not to arm Pakistan.

But now Putin slapped them with their own begging bowl

 

[SarkarRaj]

It's just delay , I think some members forgot his "KICK ON A** TO PAK VISIT"

 

[SarkarRaj]

AID PLEASE !!!!!!!

 

[Tshering22]

First india tried to backstab Putin by claiming Russia is responsible for india's aircraft carrier blowing up.

Then india begged and begged Putin not to arm Pakistan.

But now Putin slapped them with their own begging bowl

Congratulations! You survived another day!

Care to tell how many civilians were snuffed at your post before you were recruited?

Or you'll be threatened to tell even that too?

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

First india tried to backstab Putin by claiming Russia is responsible for india's aircraft carrier blowing up.

Then india begged and begged Putin not to arm Pakistan.

But now Putin slapped them with their own begging bowl

Welcome megaton fart havent u nuked moscow n new delhi yet?

 

[Rig Vedic]

As regards Systema 2G licenses, Russians should not be made to suffer because of Congress corruption. Hang Sonia upside down until she agrees to give back the bribes.

 

[Yeti]

When Putin does come to India there will be a host of deals and agreements to sign so in the meantime they will work behind the scenes to sort out ongoing issues like further reactors at Koodankulam.

 

[Kaniska]

Somehow I like Putin...He is a no nonsense leader unlike Indian leaders...If he is not getting anything in return in his trip why does he want to waste his time in unnecessarily publicity stunt????