00:00We often speak on this channel to the Indian MP Shashi Tharoor, and he wrote an opinion piece for NDTV in which he said the India-Russia relationship is strategic, not simply transactional.
00:13It sounds like you'd agree with that assessment.
00:17Absolutely. It is strategic because it is not the relationship that developed just within months.
00:23It's an old age, we say in India, there is an old age relationship, and it is a relationship that's based on the mutual respect, on the trust, because there was at one point of time when India's entire defense arsenal, particularly, was exactly Russian.
00:3860% of our defense requirements were Russian, though India is trying to be the indigenous now, technology is going, but Russia is also coming forefront in that matter as well, because Russia is offering the transfer of technology to India.
00:51See, that gives us an essence of the strategically important those two countries are.
00:57Russia giving its latest and advanced technology to India is quite something remarkable, which the West has been often ignored.
01:04The West has been ready to give the weapons to India, but not the technology.
01:08And Russia is open in that field, because Russia understands India as its core strategic partner.
01:13For example, we saw that we saw during when the crisis happened in India in the last May, we saw during the Pakistan and the India conflict that Russian S-400, one of the powerful defense systems that India acquired, despite that there has been delays in its deliveries because of the Ukraine war.
01:33And now we see that that was the front weapon for India to thwart any of the Pakistani aggression.
01:42So that's strategically important.
01:44We say that the defense was there, there's an important in the agriculture sector, fertilizer imports, that's quite a bit remarkable.
01:52You understand that India's economy is mostly agricultural and we have a huge, vast rural economy that supports the India's GDP.
02:00So all of this, all of this supporting each other in every front, in every domain, I think that is quite strategic in this fact.
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