Moscow: Ahead of President Vladimir Putin's visit, Russia today said it was not going to move further in sharing sophisticated military technologies with India until New Delhi signs an agreement on the protection of Intellectual Property Rights.

"In our military-technical cooperation we have come to a stage when, without signing of the agreement on the protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), we cannot look ahead," Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said in Moscow ahead of his trip to New Delhi to prepare the ground work for Putin's three-day visit.

During his stay in New Delhi, Ivanov will co-chair the fourth session of the Indo-Russian inter-Governmental commission on military co-operation along with his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee to finalise Defence agenda for talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Putin on December 3.

Ivanov, who is a close confidant and personal friend of Putin and is seen by many as his possible successor, underscored that the absence of IPR protection agreement has become an "obstacle" in the development of Defence co-operation involving the cutting-edge technologies.

"It has become something of an obstacle if we think of future, we can fulfil our previous obligations without this, but we cannot move ahead in high technology cooperation," Ivanov said.

He noted that Russia had submitted the draft of the agreement to India two years ago, but the Indian side has not even given its suggestions or proposals on it.