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167. Paper Prepared in the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs

issue, has been steadily pressing for approval. Because of the absence from India of key GOI ministers, India may not announce a decision on a MIG deal until after Nehru returns to India, if then. ( Nehru will make brief visits to France, Ghana and Nigeria prior to his return to India on October 1.) There are several reasons why an agreement to manufacture MIG ’s in India seems less likely to eventuate than an arrangement for purchase. On the Indian side, critics of a MIG manufacturing agreement argue that MIG -21’s manufactured in India would be obsolete by the time they became operational, e…

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