Russia regards the prospective understanding as vitally important. "We shall feel much safer if our rights and interests are reckoned with," remarked Mr. Ivanov.
The upcoming agreement allows to discern long prospects of Russian-Indian partnership. Russia is determined to keep up its dynamic military-technological contacts with India, and to quit the Indian market is the last thing it intends to do, pointed out the minister.
While at the negotiation table with his Indian counterparts, Mr. Ivanov raised an essential question-tenders for spare part imports oriented on military technologies of Russian design and manufacture are to take the Russian legislation and Russia's interests into due account, he insists.
India has taken Sergei Ivanov's demand into consideration, though it has not come up for today with whatever related practical initiatives.
Russia, on its part, called India to announce prospective tenders well beforehand through government mediators, and offer to Russia lists of necessary spare parts a year before, added the Defence Minister.
