- Title: INDIA: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev meets Indian dignitaries
- Date: 22nd December 2010
- Summary: NEW DELHI, INDIA (DECEMBER 21, 2010) (ANI - NO ACCESS BBC) DMITRY MEDVEDEV, RUSSIAN PRESIDENT, MEETING HAMID ANSARI, INDIA'S VICE-PRESIDENT MEDVEDEV AND ANSARI SHAKING HANDS MEDVEDEV AND ANSARI SITTING MEDVEDEV MEETING INDIAN DIPLOMATS MEDVEDEV ANSARI JOURNALISTS MEDVEDEV SHAKING HANDS WITH SONIA GANDHI, CHAIRPERSON OF INDIA'S RULING COALITION MEDVEDEV MEETING KARAN SINGH, SENIOR CONGRESS LEADER MEDVEDEV SHAKING HANDS WITH ANAND SHARMA, INDIA'S COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY MINISTER MEDVEDEV AND GANDHI SITTING GANDHI MEDVEDEV RUSSIAN DELEGATES MEDVEDEV MEETING SUSHMA SWARAJ, LEADER OF OPPOSITION IN THE LOWER HOUSE OF THE INDIAN PARLIAMENT MEDVEDEV AND SWARAJ SITTING SWARAJ SWARAJ AND MEDVEDEV TALKING
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- Location: India, India
- Country: India
- Topics: International Relations
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- Story Text: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met key Indian leaders on Tuesday (December 21) in New Delhi.
After the all-important delegate level talks between the leaders of India and Russia, Medvedev called upon Indian Vice-President Hamid Ansari.
Medvedev arrived with a large business delegation early on Tuesday on his two-day visit to New Delhi.
Later in the evening, Medvedev met Sonia Gandhi, the chief of the ruling coalition, and Sushma Swaraj, the leader of India's main opposition in the lower house of the Indian Parliament.
The leaders discussed issues of bilateral importance during their meetings.
Medvedev also threw his weight behind New Delhi's bid to secure a permanent seat on an expanded U.N. Security Council, following similar calls from Washington and Paris.
Leaders from Britain, the United States, France and China - along with Russia, the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council - have all visited India in the last six months, securing contracts worth a total of around $50 billion.
India, the second fastest-growing major economy in the world after China, is one of the top arms importers and plans to spend tens of billions of dollars on defence in the next few years to upgrade its ageing Soviet-era arsenal.
Russia and India signed a long-awaited contract to jointly develop a supersonic fifth generation fighter aircraft, invisible to radar like the U.S. F-22 Raptor stealth fighter. They also clinched a deal to expand capacity at a Russian-built nuclear power plant in south India.
The Russian President is also slated to visit India's financial capital Mumbai on Wednesday (December 22). - Copyright Holder: ANI (India)
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