It’s right to guard against UK components making their way to Vladimir Putin, but India’s controls are robust, writes Burzine Waghmar
You cited a recent report byJack Watling and Nick Reynolds, my Royal United Services Institute colleagues (Johnson vows to stop UK exports to India ending up in Russia, 22 April), who rightly cautioned the need to vet British defence exports, specifically to seven countries, including India.
That this is timely, lest dual-use components make their way to Vladimir Putin, merits no reiteration. But I must point out, in a year marking the 75th anniversary of the largest developing democracy, that institutionalised Indian oversight of its domestic armaments suppliers across public and private sectors, and a rules-bound administrative and judicial structure that robustly regulates civilian-military relations, has not only pre-empted individual or corporate drives and ambitions, but revealed an absence of rogue scientists, politicised soldiers and surreptitious sales to date.
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