{"id":1097840,"date":"2021-12-08T09:28:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T14:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1097840"},"modified":"2021-12-08T09:28:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T14:28:58","slug":"vladimir-putin-inks-major-weapons-sale-to-india-shortly-before-biden-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vladimir-putin-inks-major-weapons-sale-to-india-shortly-before-biden-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin Inks Major Weapons Sale to India Shortly Before Biden Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvladimir-putin-inks-major-weapons-sale-to-india-shortly-before-biden-call%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1097840&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/putin-modi-discuss-trade-humanitarian-situation-afghanistan-2021-12-06\/\">met<\/a> on Monday in New Delhi to solidify over two dozen trade and arms deals between their respective countries, including a pledge to boost annual bilateral trade to $30 billion by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>President Putin <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1371335\">arrived<\/a> in India on December 6 along with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, and Igor Sechin, the CEO of Russia\u2019s state-owned Rosneft oil company. After Lavrov and Shoigu met with their Indian counterparts on Monday, Prime Minister Modi <a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/in-pictures\/smiles-hand-shakes-and-a-hug-when-pm-modi-met-president-putin-in-delhi\/777391\/\">received<\/a> President Putin at Hyderabad House \u2014 an Indian government building used to host foreign dignitaries \u2014 in New Delhi, India\u2019s national capital. The two heads of state held extensive talks to mark the 21st annual India-Russia summit.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe perceive India as a great power, a friendly nation, and a time-tested friend,\u201d President Putin told Prime Minister Modi at&nbsp;Hyderabad House during their meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also cooperate well in the military and technical sphere like no other country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the challenges posed by [Chinese coronavirus], there is no change in the pace of growth of India-Russia relations,\u201d Prime Minister Modi told Putin on Monday. \u201cOur special and privileged strategic partnership continues to become stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The pair concluded their bilateral talks by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/12\/07\/india-russia-broaden-ties-and-military-cooperation.html\">approving<\/a> 28 investment pacts between New Delhi and Moscow related to \u201ctrade, energy, science and technology, education and intellectual property,\u201d CNBC reported.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19046114\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"34\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237052925.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19046114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237052925-1024x685-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"662\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Russian President Vladimir Putin and India\u2019s Prime Minister Narendra Modi hold a meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on December 6, 2021. ((MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV\/SPUTNIK\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla told reporters on December 6 Russian and India inked deals on \u201csteel, shipbuilding, coal, and energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe diversity of agreements and [memorandum of understandings] signed today shows the multi-faceted nature of our bilateral partnership,\u201d he affirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia and Russia have also signed a program of cooperation in the field of defense for the next ten years, 2021 to 2031,\u201d Singh added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The military pacts signed during Monday\u2019s bilateral summit include an agreement by India to provide Russia with over \u201c600,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles,\u201d Reuters reported. Russia in turn expressed interest \u201cin continuing to provide S-400 air defense missile systems [to India].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s foreign secretary revealed Monday that \u201ca 2018 contract for the S-400 missile systems was currently being implemented,\u201d according to the news agency.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19046122\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237053000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19046122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237053000-1024x692-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"669\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Russian President Vladimir Putin and India\u2019s Prime Minister Narendra Modi meet. (MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV\/SPUTNIK\/AFP via Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cSupplies have begun this month, and will continue to happen,\u201d Singh said of the missile systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe [S-400] deal with Moscow puts India at risk of sanctions from the United States under a 2017 U.S. law aimed at deterring countries from buying Russian military hardware,\u201d Reuters observed on December 6.<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi and Moscow set a joint goal on Monday of establishing $50 billion in investment between the two parties by 2025. In accordance with this target, Rosneft announced on December 6 it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosneft.com\/press\/releases\/item\/208741\/\">signed<\/a> a contract with the state-owned Indian Oil Corporation to supply \u201cup to 2 mln [million] tons of oil to India via the port of Novorossiysk by the end of 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met on Monday in New Delhi to solidify over two dozen trade and arms deals between their respective countries, including &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}