Russia needs India as major trade and economic partner - Rogozin

NEW DELHI, December 8 /TASS/. Russia needs India as a major trade and economic partner in the first place, Russian Vice-Premier Dmitry Rogozin told TASS on Tuesday after his visit to New Delhi. "In conditions of sectoral sanctions, which have been imposed on Russia (though it is fighting them with its economic dynamism), we still need a big partner that can fill the vacant niches of cooperation that appeared after our retaliatory measures," the Russian vice-premier said. "I am confident that they should and can be filled with Indian manufacturers," Rogozin stressed. "Previously, it could seem that we were focused on military-technological cooperation. It is no longer so. We need India as a major trade and economic partner in the first place in conditions when we can no longer maintain economic interaction with partners like Turkey because they have indeed been treacherous and cunning and have committed something, which is going to throw our relations far back," the Russian vice-premier went on to say. According to Rogozin, Russia and India should develop trade and economic relations to fill the enormous vacuum, which has been created. Rogozin said that a strong-willed solution on long-standing problems, including a couple of failed projects, which had plagued the Russian-Indian relations over the past years, would lead to an upsurge of bilateral trade and economic ties. Read more