Thursday, December 11, 2008

Medvedev promised to help India in investigating terrorist attacks in Mumbai.

Russia ready to cooperate with India in investigating terrorist attacks in Mumbai and preventing new terrorist attacks, said President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev in an interview with Indian media, RIA Novosti.
Medvedev said that Russia has repeatedly faced with such problems. However, he did not specify how specifically to Moscow will help New Delhi in the investigation of the recent attacks.
President of Russia on December 4 began his visit to India. When asked journalists not ispugali whether its terrorist attacks, Medvedev said: "Had we thought about what effect create this kind of attack, much less feared them, it would mean only one thing - that the terrorists have actually achieved their objectives."
Speaking of the military-technical cooperation between the two countries, Medvedev said that it will not affect the accident at the nuclear submarine "Nerpa". According to him, the CHP is no indication of the shortcomings of this type are submarin.
Previously, it was reported that "Nerpu" hand over India in the lease of ten years, but Russian military denied the information. As the RIA Novosti, Russia is actively cooperating with India on a number of projects in the field of ICDs: modernizes aircraft-carrying cruiser "Admiral Gorshkov", as well as participating in joint production of cruise missiles BraMos. "
Medvedev said that the export of missiles BraMos "to third countries is possible in accordance with international agreements. These agreements are binding for Russia, and India, he said, deal with non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
"But when we remain in the legal field when it comes to cooperation, which is legally correct, we, of course, for themselves do not rule out anything," - he added.
Moreover, Medvedev said that Russia and India must agree on the final parameters of the project for modernization of the cruiser "Admiral Gorshkov" and realize it until the end. The problem is that the transfer of the ship Indian navy was planned in 2008 but, due to increased work dates emerged. As expected, the ship will be handed over to Indian side since 2011.
The President stressed that the topic was "not very easy in our relations." "But I do not see anything supernatural in the situation that currently exists. I think we just need to show the mutual attention to agree on the final parameters of cooperation on this project and realize it until the end" - said Medvedev.

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