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20.
A French ambassador to India has described as follows the Tarapur episode: 'As
far as transfer of technology was concerned, France was used by India to by-pass
the regulations, restraints or hostility of other industrialised countries like the
United States' (Philippe Petit, in Banerjjee, 1994, p.244).
21.
Atul Aneja in
The Hindu,
2 Feb. 1999.
22.
The Indo-Russian agreement includes, besides negotiations on the transfer and
refitting of aircraft carrier
Admiral Gorshkov,
a deal for assembling in India under
licence 200 of the 310 T-90 tanks ordered, and a deal for producing in India no less
than 140 Sukhoi-30 MKI aircraft. In this context, the sale of 10 additional Mirage,
although described as 'the biggest defence deal between India and France in the
past decade' (
India Abroad,
5 Jan. 2001), is far from challenging the Russian
hegemony.
23.
Lecture by Air Vice-Marshal Samir K.Sen: 'Technology and National Security,
The Case of India', Indian International Centre, New Delhi, 24 July 2001. Among
examples of delayed projects, the most quoted are the Arjun Tank and the Light
Combat Aircraft. The LCA, expected to offer a substitute to the ageing MiG-21,
made its successful test flight in Jan. 2001, 18 years after the programme has been
sanctioned. Dassault was at a time associated with it, but withdrew.
24.
See S.Kapila's assesment in paper 127 of the South Asia Analysis Group, 2000.
25.
As quoted by Seema Sarin in
The Pioneer,
3 Feb. 2000.
26.
Alain Juppé's press conference, New Delhi, 4 April 1994.
27.
On 5 Aug. 1999, one month after the Clinton-Sharif joint declaration which
prompted the end of the Kargil conflict, Senator X. de Villepin asked the Foreign
Minister 'if one could believe that India would be now willing to accept a greater
implication of the international community on Kashmir'. He went to add: 'If we
accept this assumption, should we not take and give rise to initiatives for
transforming the Line of Control into an international boundary?' The answer came
directly from the textbook: 'The bilateral dialogue alone could resolve the
disagreement on Kashmir, through ways that India and Pakistan have to define, for
all mediation proposals by a third party have failed' (
Senate Reports,
dated 16
Sept. 1999, p.3060). Minister Védrine clarified later on in New Delhi, that 'if the US
could help moving things the right way, (France) would be very happy' (press
conference on 18 Feb. 2000).
28.
Alain Juppé's press conference, New Delhi, 4 April 1994.
29.
Brajesh Mishra's speech, Lisbon, 13 April 2000.
30.
K.R.Narayanan's speech, Paris, 17 April 2000.
31.
Rasthrapati Bhavan, press release, 3 Aug. 2000.
32.
French Defence Minister Alain Richard's speech at the United Services Institution
of India, New Delhi, 19 May 2000.
33.
The value of the French Franc has been fixed at FF 6.55957 for 1 Euro. In Jan.
2002, the conversion rate was 1US$ for 1.12 Euro.
34.
Note on Indo-French economic relations, Indian Embassy in Paris (2000), see:
www.ambinde/indofrench1.htm
35.
C.V.Ranganathan, in Banerjee, 1994, pp.241-2.
36.
Audition of Jean-Bernard Ouvrieu, Personal representative of the French Defense
Minister to the French Senate Commission for Foreign Affairs and Defense, 1 Dec.
