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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Monday that India has a substantial inventory of Soviet and Russian-origin weapons because the Western countries opted a military dictatorship in the region as its “preferred partner” and did not supply arms to New Delhi for decades, in a veiled reference to Pakistan. During a joint press meet with his Australian counterpart Penny Wong here, Jaishankar also said that India and Russia have a long-standing relationship that has certainly served India’s interests well. “We have a substantial inventory of Soviet and Russian-origin weapons. And that inventory actually grew for a variety of reasons....
