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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

After India lodges protest, Russia stops China from handing its engines to Pak for fighters

Moscow has “frozen” a Chinese request for re-export of RD-93 engines, used to power the multi-role JF-17 fighter, to Pakistan. Two JF-17 fighters, handed over to Pakistan by China as part of a joint-venture agreement last March, have been returned to Beijing.

This will be conveyed by Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov to National Security Advisor M K Narayanan when he lands in Moscow on August 28 for high-level defence dialogue.

Following up on talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the Heiligendamm G-8 meeting, Naryanan will discuss critical defence issues: Delay in upgradation of the Gorshkov aircraft carrier, cooperation in military applications of GLONASS (akin to the American GPS), price escalation in Su-30 MKI contract and the defence integrity pact.

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