MOSCOW – Indian PM Narendra Modi asks for weapons and transfer oftechnology from Russia.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked for transfer of technology fromRussia to produce military equipment in a cost-effective manner.
In an interview with TASS Russian News Agency, Prime Minister Modi saidthat if technologies are transferred, the production of weapons and othermilitary equipment would be cheap in India.
The Prime Minister said that if this becomes a reality, India and Russiacan “supply these weapons to third world countries at very low prices”.Modi added that New Delhi and Moscow “need to take advantage of thisopportunity”.
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According to Prime Minister Modi, both India and Russia are not interestedin only “the relations between customer and seller of militarytechnologies”, adding that the governments of both the countries are “sureabout the model of transferring technologies”.
The Prime Minister arrived in Vladivostok city of Russia on Wednesday toparticipate in the 20th India-Russia annual summit and the fifth meeting ofthe Eastern Economic Forum (EEF).
