Interview with Dr Jawahar Vishnu Bhagwat
The development of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) is currently one of Russia’s key strategic projects for the Arctic region. Given its scale and significance, developing the NSR also requires expanding international cooperation and participation in the project. Russia has been actively attracting Indian partners to find areas where the two can work together to ...
... controls the rapidly developing Northern Sea Route along the Russian Arctic coastline, whereas India has significant influence over South Asian Sea routes. Without Russia’s participation, it is impossible to take advantage of the resources of the Arctic shelf; without India, it is impossible to gain access to the
resources
of East Africa. The two countries do not compete in the use of transport routes in these regions, rather complementing each other, and both aiming to gain from increased trade turnover between Europe and Asia. Therefore, cooperation in the development of transport routes and infrastructure projects would mutually ...