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| For key defence purchases from US, |
| For key defence purchases from US, India must walk Obama sweet talk
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 27-November-2009
2:59:41 AM |
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President Barack Obama may have struck the right personal equation but for this to translate into substantive outcomes, India will soon have to take a political call on certain technical agreements on the defence side to facilitate procurements from the US.
It’s learnt that US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has conveyed to the Prime Minister that it will be difficult for the US to provide related and ancillary equipment for any military platform it sells to India unless it signs the Communications and Information Security Memorandum of Agreement (CISMOA) and another agreement related to exchange of satellite data. The Indian side is said to have responded that the matter is under New Delhi’s consideration.
The CISMOA is already pending with the Defence Ministry and had been put on hold by the first UPA government because of Left pressure. But there has been no review of that decision after the second UPA government took over.
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