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1. Bilateral annual exceeds $3 billion, with oil constituting more than 96% of Indian imports from Nigeria.
2. For better or for worse, democracy in the region has been accompanied by policies of economic liberalisation and efforts to attract foreign investment, culminating in the of the Central American Free Trade Agreement with the US in 2005.
3. Non-nuclear nations that sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty, as Iran has, to abandon all efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
4. Since the manufacturing and service sectors of the Russian economy are not by global standards, Moscow is heavily dependent on the export of commodities, especially gas and oil, to generate hard currency.
5. The border dispute remains , and both countries vie for influence in neighboring states such as Myanmar.
6. The United States and Russia have started negotiations on deep cuts in their nuclear arsenals, which together 95% of the world’s 27,000 warheads.
7. These are the kinds of issues that should be on the table as representatives from Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine later this week in Minsk, Belarus.
8. We should be negotiating an international agreement to increase radically spending on green-energy research and development – to a total of 0.2% of global , or $100 billion a year.
9. Lavrov has said repeatedly that the fate of Assad was a decision for Syrians alone and that Russia would not a date for his departure.
