Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek, who is on a three-day visit to India, has
met the Indian President Abdul Kalam, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and
Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee among others, to discuss primarily
economic cooperation between the two countries. Mr Paroubek said on
Wednesday that India was interested mainly in complete plants and military
materiel. He also said that the Czech Republic, or the former
Czechoslovakia, was perceived positively in India, as a number of
companies, for instance Bata, have been present in the country since the
1930s.