New Delhi: Defense Secretary Ajay Kumar held a bilateral meeting with delegations from Bangladesh and Kazakhstan on the sidelines of the 12th DefExpo in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, on Wednesday, the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
The Bangladeshi delegation was led by Lieutenant General Waker-Uz-Zaman, senior personnel officer of the Bangladesh Armed Forces Division, he said.
“They reviewed the major issues of bilateral defense cooperation between the two countries and explored tactics for defense trade cooperation,” the ministry said.
The Secretary of Defense then met with the delegation of Kazakhstan headed by Lieutenant General Ruslan Shpekbayev, Deputy Minister of Defense of Kazakhstan.
“A number of bilateral defense cooperation issues were discussed with a specific focus on training, joint training and capability building,” the ministry said.
India and Bangladesh held their fourth annual Defence Dialogue in August. Talks between the 3 also took position in the same month. India also presented Bangladesh with a $500 million Line of Credit (LoC) for the acquisition of Indian army aircraft for the latter’s defence matrix.
This follows reports that the Bangladeshi military is not satisfied with the quality of the defense apparatus it has obtained from Chinese sources. Defense cooperation was also discussed through Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Sheikh Hasina, the latter’s stopover in India from September 5 to 8, 2022.
Kazakhstan and India have also noted an expansion of defense cooperation in years. The Central Asian nation’s defense minister, Lieutenant General Nurlan Yermekbayev, visited India in 2021.
The two countries signed a defense generation cooperation agreement in 2015 and discussions on weapons co-production have accelerated in recent years. Mountain counter-terrorism operations in August 2021.
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