Moscow: Russia will help India in setting up a Naval facility for the medium repairs and modernisation of submarines at Vishakapatnam, under the Indo-Russian Defence Co- operation Protocol signed in Moscow.

Russia has also agreed to jointly set up several servicing centres in India for carrying out logistic and product support for the Russian-origin military hardware to resolve the problem of spare parts, Defence Minister George Fernandes told reporters before leaving for the Siberian city of Irkutsk to see the production facilities of the Sukhoi Su-30MKI multirole combat aircraft.

"We have to have a good look at the Sukhoi facility, since we have to build our own facility for the production of Sukhoi planes under the technology transfer license," Fernandes said.

The Protocol was signed on January 17 by him and Russian Industries, Science and Technology Minister Ilya Klebanov.

PTI