Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Austin will hold talks on Monday on a host of issues relating to bilateral defence cooperation
New Delhi: US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will pay a two-day visit to India beginning Sunday, June 4, about two weeks ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled trip to Washington, a PTI report in The Tribune, Chandigarh, says.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Austin will hold talks on Monday, June 5, on a host of issues relating to bilateral defence cooperation, the defence ministry said on Saturday, June 3.
The US Defence Secretary will arrive in India on Sunday from Singapore on a two-day visit, it said.
It will be Austin’s second visit to India. His previous trip to the country was in March 2021.
The ministry said Germany’s Federal Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius will also visit New Delhi for bilateral talks with Singh that will take place on June 6.
A host of bilateral defence cooperation issues, with a focus on industrial cooperation, are likely to be discussed during Singh’s meetings with Austin and Pistorius, it said.
“The Defence Minister’s meeting with the US Secretary of Defence will be held on June 5, while talks with the German Federal Minister of Defence will take place on June 6,” it added.
The India-US defence and strategic ties have been on an upswing in the last few years.
The two countries have signed key defence and security pacts over the last few years, including the Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA) in 2016 that allows their militaries to use each other’s bases for repair and replenishment of supplies.
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