- India and Vietnam on Wednesday decided to tone up their defence-related engagement, with New Delhi agreeing to carry forward its assistance to Hanoi in its ongoing military modernisation.
- Bilateral cooperation in several fields, including the training of military personnel, was discussed, from a broad political perspective, by Defence Minister A. K. Antony and his Vietnamese counterpart Phung Quang Thanh in Hanoi.
- Mr. Antony later called on Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung during the course of an official visit that followed Tuesday's conference of Asia-Pacific Defence Ministers (ADMM-Plus) in Hanoi.
- India and Vietnam had signed a defence cooperation memorandum in November 2009, and Tuesday's discussions in Hanoi are understood to have centred on the modalities of intensifying the implementation of the ongoing programmes under that agreement.
- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit Hanoi later this month for the India-ASEAN summit and the EAS meeting, both being hosted by Vietnam.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
India, Vietnam agree to tone up defence ties
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