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INDIA'S PRESIDENT TO VISIT RUSSIA AT MONTH'S END, PREMIER WITHIN YEAR: PUTIN

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MOSCOW, May 9 (RIA Novosti) - India's President is visiting Russia toward the month's end, and Prime Minister late this year, said President Vladimir Putin as he was opening a Kremlin conference with Manmohan Singh, India's Premier.

As Sergei Prikhodko, President Putin's aide, said to the media after the conference, Mr. Singh will pay his official visit late in October into early November. The schedule will be specified, later on.

The Russian, Indian and Chinese Ministers of Foreign Affairs are gathering in Vladivostok, on the Russian Pacific coast, early June, he added.

As Messrs. Putin and Singh were in conference, Russia's President said he did not think the present Russian-Indian trade had a satisfactory turnover. He also called to step up bilateral high-tech partnership.

The Indian Prime Minister, in his turn, made a proposal to establish an ad hoc team that will analyze the ways to step up bilateral trade and economic partnership. Mr. Prikhodko does not rule out that the team will also tackle drafting a new, enlarged, Russo-Indian partnership agreement for the commercial and economic field.

The conferees had a detailed discussion of military-technological partnership, and closer contacts in civil-oriented nuclear research and industry.

India has a major interest in Russia taking part in efforts to build up the Kudankulam nuclear plant capacity, in India's south, added the presidential aide.

Messrs. Putin and Singh also discussed prospects for India to channel what is left of its debt to Russia into funding cooperated high-tech programs-for space efforts and information technologies, specified Mr. Prikhodko.

The agenda also included bilateral partnership on Project Sakhalin-1, he added.

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