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India-Saudi Arabia to enhance defence
cooperation
Monday September 10, 2012 08:22:15 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: India and
Saudi Arabia will enhance bilateral cooperation with defence
exchanges and interaction between their armed forces, the
government said Monday.
The two countries held the first ever meeting of the joint
committee on defence cooperation here Monday. It was attended by a
11-member Saudi delegation headed by armed forces operations'
chief Major General Suleiman Saleh Al-Khalifa.
"Proposals for exchange of high level visits, training exchanges
and functional exchanges in various areas were discussed and will
be finalised over the coming weeks," the defence ministry said in
a statement.
The joint committee has been tasked to develop programmes to
further cooperation between the military establishments of the two
countries.
Both the countries decided to form the committee after Defence
Minister A.K. Antony met his Saudi counterpart Crown Prince Salman
bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud during a visit to Saudi Arabia in February
2012.
India-Saudi relations have are in an upswing since 2006 after King
Abdullah visited New Delhi. In 2010, the two nations signed
several pacts, including agreements on energy, counterterrorism,
narcotics, money laundering and extradition.
The two countries are also examining the possibility of
cooperation in defence industries.
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