01-23-2007, 11:50 AM
<b>On Ivanov's agenda, how to outdo Washington's hardsell of weapons</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->On his seventh trip to New Delhi in as many years, Russian defence minister Sergei Ivanov's agenda this time round couldn't be more crucial, both commercially and strategically, to Moscow.
With its monopoly of the Indian weapons market steeply threatened, and New Delhi on the threshold of purchasing billions of dollars worth of new generation weapons, it's a do-or-die state for the post-Cold War Russian military complex. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->On his seventh trip to New Delhi in as many years, Russian defence minister Sergei Ivanov's agenda this time round couldn't be more crucial, both commercially and strategically, to Moscow.
With its monopoly of the Indian weapons market steeply threatened, and New Delhi on the threshold of purchasing billions of dollars worth of new generation weapons, it's a do-or-die state for the post-Cold War Russian military complex. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->