India, U.S. firm up 3 hi-tech pacts
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21/07/2009
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Hindu (New Delhi)
NEW DELHI: India and the U.S. on Monday finalised three hi-tech agreements with the visiting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton singling out the military end user agreement as the harbinger of greater defence cooperation.
The other two agreements are the Technology Safeguards Agreement (TSA), a type of end user agreement in the space sector, which will pave the way for the use of U.S. components in Indian satellites, and the Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement, signed by External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and Ms. Clinton just before their joint media interaction.
Ms. Clinton announced that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had accepted U.S. President Barack Obama