#Russia, India announce joint moon mission
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Russia, India to join in moon mission
Nov 12 07:49 PM US/Eastern
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The leaders of veteran allies Russia and India agreed Monday
to launch a joint unmanned mission to the moon during Kremlin talks on
boosting military and trade ties.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced the plan after talks
with Russian President Vladimir Putin during which the two discussed
projects for a more than twofold increase in trade by the end of the
decade.
"The symbol of our cooperation is the joint agreement to send an
unpiloted space ship to the moon for scientific investigation," Singh
said in comments broadcast on Russian state television after the
meeting.
Russia's space agency Roskosmos said it had signed an agreement with
the Indian space agency for joint lunar exploration through 2017,
including the construction of a module that will orbit the moon "for
peaceful purposes."
"Russia and India will jointly build a space ship. Under the project
we plan to send an entire laboratory to the moon," Roskosmos head
Anatoly Perminov said in a statement.
During the talks the Russian and Indian leaders also "paid particular
attention to cooperation in nuclear energy and in military-technical
cooperation," Putin said.
Russia accounts for 70 percent of Indian military hardware while India
currently accounts for 30 percent of Russian arms sales, Interfax
reported, citing Russian officials.
Agreement was finalised on a joint project to develop a new military
transport plane, the Il-214, as well as cooperation on a
fifth-generation fighter jet.
The deals "open new prospects for our scientific, technical and
production cooperation in sensitive areas," Putin said.
Singh thanked the Russian president for assisting in efforts to lift
international restrictions on nuclear cooperation with India.
"We look forward to expanding our cooperation with Russia in the civil
use of nuclear energy in the future," he said.
Nuclear trade with India is still banned as it has refused to sign the
nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
New Delhi is currently vying for approval from the 45-member Nuclear
Suppliers Group for a contentious nuclear deal with the United States
under which it can get nuclear fuel and technology.
Singh said an intergovernmental agreement to build four nuclear
reactors in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu was being
prepared.
Under an existing deal, Russia has agreed to install two reactors in
Tamil Nadu with a capacity to produce 1,000 megawatts of atomic energy
a day.
The two regional powers promised cooperation, in particular between
the BRIC grouping of huge, developing nations: Brazil, Russia, India
and China.
"I see big prospects in active ties on the trilateral format:
Russia-India-China and on the four-sided BRIC format," Putin said.
"In this increasingly interdependent world in which we live in we have
an obligation to explore areas of convergence between" Russia, India
and China, Singh said.
The two sides also managed to bring their positions closer on
Afghanistan, Iraq, the Iranian nuclear programme, Putin said.
And they reached agreement on settling Indian debt to Russia from the
Soviet era.
The two countries aim to boost bilateral trade to 10 billion dollars
(6.8 billion euros) per year by 2010 from four billion dollars in
2006, Singh said.
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