MOSCOW (PTI): Russian president Boris Yeltsin’s visit to India in January is widely expected to give a fresh impetus to bilateral relations, which went into a temporary hiatus following Soviet Union’s disintegration and the consequent internal problems faced by Russia.
The main item on Yeltsin’s agenda during the visit is probably going to be the signing of a new Indo-Russian treaty which will replace the 1971 treaty of peace, friendship and cooperation between India and the then Soviet Union.
While the main clauses of the treaty were more or less finalized during the foreign secretary J.N. Dixit’s visit to Russia early this year and during subsequent official level contacts, observers feel it would differ from the 1971 treaty.
The new treaty will take into account the changes that have taken place in the world the end of the cold war, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and therefore would have to differ from the 1971 agreement, observers say.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 18, 1992
