Defence Minister Rajnath Singh with Vice Minister of Defense for International Affairs of Japan Oka Masami calls in New Delhi on Thursday. Defence Secretary Giridhar Aramane can be seen.
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India shares Japan’s vision for a free, open, secure and rules-based Indo-Pacific, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh mentioned in a dialog with the Vice Minister of Defense for International Affairs of Japan Oka Masami and additionally pressured that each the nations should proceed to broaden the scope of India-Japan bilateral cooperation.
Mr. Oka co-chaired the seventh Defence Policy Dialogue with Defence Secretary Giridhar Aramane on Wednesday. “The visiting dignitary reiterated Japan’s keenness to further enhance bilateral defence cooperation, including collaboration in defence equipment and technology,” a Defence Ministry assertion mentioned.
On the dialogue, the assertion mentioned that a big selection of points, together with service-level workouts and engagements, regional safety points and cooperation in defence tools and expertise, had been mentioned. “The Japanese Vice Minister also presented policy updates from their recently released National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy.”
Stressing on the necessity for collaboration between defence industries on either side, Mr. Aramane invited Japanese defence industries to take a look at funding alternatives in India beneath the ‘Make in India’ initiative, the assertion mentioned including that either side agreed to diversify cooperation in new and rising domains like defence house and cyber.
On Thursday, the Vice Minister visited the Indian Navy’s Information Fusion Centre for Indian Ocean Region (IFC-IOR) at Gurugram. He was briefed on modern maritime safety scenario in wider IOR and the Centre’s position in cueing operational responses by way of collaboration and seamless info sharing, the IFC-IOR Twitter deal with mentioned in a put up.
The Defence Policy Dialogue is an institutionalised mechanism between India and Japan to debate bilateral defence cooperation.
