Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh circumvented differences over contentious issues to come up with a 13th India-Russia Annual Summit meeting described even by the Russian side as “very successful”.
In a restricted 75-minute meeting— longer than the delegation level talks — Putin told Singh that Russia wanted its concerns over the Sistema issue to be taken care of.
While reiterating that the issue was pending in court, Singh assured the Russian president that India will work for an amicable solution. Russian sources said Putin was satisfied with the assurance given by Singh, with the two sides reaching a “complete understanding”.
Russia did not raise it in the delegation-level talks, during which Putin told the Indian side that New Delhi’s decision to bring the third and fourth units of Kudankulam nuclear reactors under India’s nuclear liability law would have implications for the techno-commercial agreement that the two countries are negotiating. Russia is now expected to quote a fresh price for the reactors, Indian sources said.
In a statement later, Singh said negotiations for the third and fourth units had made good progress. “We intend to continue implementing the roadmap for cooperation in the nuclear energy sector that was signed during President Putin’s visit in 2010 as the then prime minister of Russia,” Singh said, describing Putin as the architect of India’s strategic partnership with Russia.
The two sides signed around 10 deals. The two sides discussed a range of international issues like the situation in Afghanistan and the scourge of terrorism.
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