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To: HG who wrote (359)	10/29/2001 1:16:32 AM
From: HG	Respond to of 1595

Putin clears missile shield for India DADAN UPADHYAY indian-express.com MOSCOW, OCTOBER 28: President Putin has cleared the Russian proposal to build a missile shield for India. He approved the proposal at a meeting of the Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation with Foreign Countries in the Kremlin last week, sources said here. Putin is the chairman of the high-powered 11-member commission, overseeing Russia’s lucrative arms trade with foreign countries, while Deputy Prime Minister responsible for defence industry and arms exports, Ilya Klebanov is its secretary. Klebanov, who cochairs the Indo-Russian Inter-Governmental Commission for Military-Technical Cooperation, had publicly offered to build S-300 PMU missile defence system for India, during the visit of his Indian counterpart Jaswant Singh, inlast June. After Putin’s clearance, Russians are expected to formally make the proposal to India to collaborate on building a missile defence system, during the coming visit of Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, scheduled for November 4-7, sources said. The price tag of the ambitious air shield is not known yet, but it’s going to be a part of a huge package, worth about five billion dollars, to be signed during Vajpayee’s visit, they pointed out. India and Russia are expected to ink a number of defence agreements during Prime Minister’s visit, including a deal on moderinisation and retrofitting of heavy aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov and up to 40 MiG-29K aircraft, a lease contract for the four Tu-22M3 long-range strategic bombers, purchase of MiG-AT advanced jet trainers and Smerch multiple rocket launchers. With the official proposal, India and Russia are expected to speed up their cooperation in building the missile defence, for which the two sides have been conducting negotiations for four years.