New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday.
He is on a two-day state visit to Russia, his second trip there in two years. He said that relations with Russia are high priority for India.
Bilateral interactions have become a regular feature since Putin first visited India in 2000. Regarding the proposed signing of the civil nuclear cooperation agreement, Singh said there are some sticking points that needs to be looked into.
This development comes in the backdrop of the stalled Indo-US nuclear deal.
The bilateral visits have become a regular annual fixture, since Russian President Vladimir Putin first visited India in 2000.
This will be the eighth annual meeting, and the second time this year that the two leaders will meet, as Putin visited New Delhi on January 25-26.
Hitches continued to dog the planned signing of the civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon saying there were some ‘problems’ which will have to be looked into. The development comes in the backdrop of the stalled Indo-US nuclear deal.
Menon said though a MoU was signed in this regard during Vladimir Putin's visit to India early this year it was not possible to execute an inter-governmental agreement in this regard now.
National Security Adviser M K Narayanan said it was not as though the original 1988 agreement, which envisaged the setting up of two reactors in Kudankulam can "grandfather" four more reactors.
Earlier, shortly before leaving for Moscow, Singh said that his visit will lead to a reaffirmation of the joint endeavor towards creating greater economic prosperity and a secure, stable and peaceful order.
(With agency inputs)
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