India and Russia today signed a slew of agreements in areas ranging from science, nuclear energy to culture and pharmaceuticals. The two countries also inked a contract for jointly building a fifth generation fighter jet. Altogether 30 agreements in various sectors have been signed. The two countries also asked Pakistan to bring the 26/11 perpetrators to justice. Eleven agreements were signed in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and visiting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who reiterated his country's support for India's bid for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council. The other agreements were signed on the margins of the summit between the two leaders. A memorandum of understanding between India's department of atomic energy and Russia's state atomic energy corporation Rosatom for broader scientific and technical cooperation and a pact on cooperation in oil and gas sector were among the pacts signed to signal the growing energy partnership between the two sides. Ending speculation, the two sides signed a preliminary design contract (PDC) for building a fifth generation fighter aircraft (FGFA). The contract envisages joint design and development of the aircraft with the involvement of HAL on the Indian side and Sukhoi Design Bureau and Rosoboron export on the Russian side. With an aim to maintain seamless supply of cruise missiles to the Indian armed forces, BrahMos Aerospace and Russian NPO Mashinostroyenia have also signed a protocol to ensure that there are no price escalation issues during the duration of the contract. Under the agreement, both sides pledged their readiness to work towards developing hypersonic version of the missile to maintain its leadership in cruise missiles.Medvedev who arrived in India on a two-day visit early late last night also marked the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the strategic partnership between the two countries. He held delegation level talks with the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh for nearly two hours in New Delhi and discussed a host of issues, including the expansion of civil nuclear cooperation, the intensification of bilateral economic ties, global terrorism and the international financial crisis. Talking to reporters after the meeting the Russian President said that Moscow wants to India to have a permanent seat in the UN Security Council if the decision to expand the organ is taken .In a joint statement issued after the talks the two countries Vowed to double their bilateral trade to 20 billion us dollars by 2015, the two sides discussed setting up “additional nuclear reactors” in Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu. Our correspondent reports that expanding counter-terror cooperation figured prominently in the talks between the two leaders. The joint statement says that the two sides maintained all terrorist networks must be defeated and called upon Pakistan to expeditiously to bring all the perpetrators, authors and accomplices of the Nov 2008 Mumbai attacks to justice. Elaborating their points in the joint press interaction the two leaders asserted that terrorists are criminals and those who hide terrorists, conceal their crimes are subject to punishment. in response to questions from media, Dr. Manmohan Singh said that India and Russia discussed setting up additional nuclear reactors in Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu and agreed to intensify cooperation in Afghanistan.