PM Modi, President Putin Address Joint Statement: Highlights

New Delhi: Russia's President Vladimir Putin held talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday as sanctions-hit Moscow tries to strengthen energy, defence and strategic ties in Asia.

India has agreed to identify a second site, in addition to Kudankulam, for Russian-designed nuclear power units. (Read Full Text of the Joint Statement here)

PM Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed a joint statement in Delhi today. Here are the highlights:

PM Narendra Modi:

• Honoured to host President Putin in India
  
• Putin is the leader of a great nation with whom we have a friendship that is unmatched
• Strategic partnership that is incomparable in content
• Has been there in tough times
• India has stood with Russia through its own challenges
• The importance of this relationship and its unique place in India is foreign policy will not change
• Russia has been India's foremost defence partner through decades
• We have outlined an ambitious vision for nuclear energy of at least 10 more reactors
  
• Russia has offered to fully manufacture in India one of its most advanced helicopters...We will follow up on this quickly