Sunday, November 19, 2006

India, US to increase military cooperation

Top defence officials from India and US Thursday discussed situation in the region particularly in Afghanistan and also decided to scale up military-to-military cooperation to more strategic level.

"The focus of talks was intensive exchange of views on Afghanistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka" a top defence Ministry official said after first day of the two-day meeting of the Indo-US joint Defence Policy Group co-chaired by Defence Secretary Shekhar Dutt and US Under Secretary of Defence for Policy Eric Endleman, PTI reported.

In a new dimension to the annual exercise, Endleman made a detailed presentation on the security scenario in the region between Middle-East and South East Asia with particular focus on Central Asia and Afghanistan. The meeting also discussed strategic issues like cooperation in missile defence, arms sales under Government-to Government basis and military-to-military contacts.

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