{"id":43409,"date":"2013-10-02T08:25:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T05:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=43409"},"modified":"2013-10-02T11:31:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T08:31:05","slug":"india-wants-to-co-produce-defence-equipment-with-us-indian-pm-43409","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/india-wants-to-co-produce-defence-equipment-with-us-indian-pm-43409\/","title":{"rendered":"India wants to co-produce defence equipment with US: Indian PM"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has said India does not want to rely on buyer-seller relationship in defence with America and instead wants to co-produce defence equipment with United States.<\/h1>\n

New Delhi, Oct 2\/Nationalturk \u2013 Admitting\u00a0 that there have been US concerns on Indo-US economic relationship,\u00a0 Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has said India \u00a0wants to co-produce defence equipment with United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the area of defence cooperation with US, India is trying to move away from the buyer-seller relationship to a relationship based on co-production and based on co-research. The \u00a0outcome of my deliberations with US president Obama on defence cooperation during my recent visit New York is in line with our own thinking,\u201d Manmohan Singh told reporters on board flight while returning home from New York.<\/p>\n

Indian PM attended the annual session of United Nations General Assembly. He also held talks with US president Barrack Hussain Obama, \u00a0Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif and other world leaders during the sideline of UN session.<\/p>\n

\u2018India\u2019s domestic industry should get involved in defence production\u2019<\/h2>\n

Asked about India\u2019s domestic defence production, Singh said, \u201cWe would like our own domestic industry to get involved in domestic production. We would also like Foreign Direct Investment to the extent of 26 percent to come into defence production. So, I think this is a step forward\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI and President Obama during our meeting reviewed our cooperation in the area of civil nuclear cooperation. There is now an early works agreement between Westinghouse and also our NPCIL. At the inter-governmental level, there are no irritants in the implementation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Singh said there have been important steps forward in India-US cooperation in the field of knowledge initiative, \u00a0education, \u00a0energy and\u00a0 environment related issues. \u201cIn all these areas, it is an ongoing relationship and President Obama and I\u00a0 re-committed our two countries to work together to enhance understanding and cooperation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018There have been US business concerns\u2019<\/h3>\n

Asked whether Indo-US economic relationship has deteriorated \u00a0with US business lobbying with the US government to investigate Indian trade practice, Singh said, \u201cThere have been US business concerns but these largely arose out of the slowdown of the Indian economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Indian economy was growing at the rate of 8 to 9 percent, I think everybody was quite happy. Even defects in our policies were overlooked, and when the economy slows down people try to find fault and excuses. President Obama did not go in detail with me. He did understand our concerns but he also said that it is time that the CEOs Forum on both sides sat together to discuss these issues and to find out the meeting ground,\u201d added Indian PM.<\/p>\n

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