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Dmitry Medvedev welcomed Manmohan Singh to Moscow on Sunday as the two met for informal talks. The full-fledged discussions on Monday will be held in the Kremlin.

Singh told Russian media before his visit that India is interested in diversifying bilateral relations with Russia and proposes to seek new areas for cooperation, such as in the pharmaceutical and diamond industries, and in bio-, nano- and information technology.

"We need to widen our trade basket, and promote greater investments in each other"s countries. Pharmaceuticals, information technology and diamonds can become areas of future growth," Singh said.

Russia and India have a long history of cooperation in the nuclear and military spheres, and Singh said the two sides should build on that and expand energy cooperation.

"We would in particular like to see further progress in the hydrocarbon sector, which has been under discussion for some time," he said. "We would like to see greater Russian

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