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Fruitful year for ties with India: Putin

By Vladimir Radyuhin

MOSCOW DEC. 30. The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has described the outgoing year as having been `extremely full and fruitful for Russian-Indian cooperation.''

``Our recent talks in New Delhi have once more convincingly confirmed the high level of strategic

partnership between Russia and India,'' the Itar-Tass news agency quoted him as writing in a New Year greetings message to the Prime Minister, A.B.Vajpayee.

This is Mr. Putin's second message to Mr. Vajpayee within a week. On December 25, he congratulated the Indian leader on his birthday. India was mentioned along with the United States and China, as the first countries the Russian leader sent his New Year greetings to.

Mr. Putin praised "a truly partner character'' that Russian-American relations had developed in 2002 and pointedly hoped for "joint work'' to resolve global and regional problems.

In a message to the Chinese President, Jiang Zemin, Mr. Putin recalled with ``warmth'' their meeting in Beijing earlier this month and expressed the hope for "the sure progressive development of the Russian-Chinese partnership.''

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