Parwinder SandhuNew Delhi, Nov. 29 -- Ahead of the highly anticipated visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to India to attend the 23rd Bilateral Summit slated for December 4-5, the lower house of Russian Parliament (State Duma) is set to ratify a crucial military pact with India.
Signed on February 18 in Moscow by Indian Ambassador Vinay Kumar and the then Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Fomin, the Reciprocal Exchange of Logistics Agreement (RELOS) aims to further strengthen military cooperation between the two long-standing strategic partners.
According to Russia's official news agency, TASS, the Russian government has submitted to the State Duma for ratification a Russian-Indian agreement on the procedure of mutual dispatch of pe...