PM meets Medvedev to ink N-deal, defence pacts

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday to ink the expanded civil nuclear deal and three defence pacts.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday to ink the expanded civil nuclear deal and three defence pacts.

The umbrella agreement for expanding civil nuclear cooperation will give New Delhi the right to reprocess spent fuel, taking the pact "far beyond the 123 agreement" inked with the US, official sources had said Sunday.

The comments came as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Moscow on a three-day visit.

Officials travelling with the prime minister to Moscow said the pact has a "forward looking language" on nuclear reprocessing rights for India.

"After the deal is signed, the nuclear fuel supply won't be stopped if bilateral cooperation breaks up in future," said a senior Indian official in Moscow.

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