New Delhi: India will gift an indigenously built in-service warship, a missile corvette INS Kirpan, to the Vietnamese Navy, a special report in The Tribune Chandigarh, says.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh made the announcement after he held talks with his counterpart from Vietnam General Phan Van Giang on Monday.
Strengthening ties
- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held talks with his counterpart from Vietnam General Phan Van Giang on Monday
- They identified means to enhance existing areas of collaboration, especially in the field of defence industry cooperation
Both ministers identified means to enhance existing areas of collaboration, especially in the field of defence industry cooperation, maritime security and multinational cooperation.
The Vietnamese minister also visited the DRDO and discussed ways to enhance defence industrial capabilities by cooperation in defence research and joint production.
Last year, Rajnath Singh had handed over 12 high-speed guard boats to Vietnam during his visit to the country.
An official release by the ministry of defence said, “Both ministers identified means to enhance existing areas of collaboration, especially in the field of defence industry cooperation, maritime security and multinational cooperation.”
The two nations have been putting special emphasis on boosting defence ties and reviewing the situation in the South China Sea. Notably, the South China Sea region has witnessed growing Chinese assertiveness in the recent past.
Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan was among the officials who attended the bilateral talks.
As part of his engagements, General Phan Van Giang visited the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) headquarters, where he discussed ways to enhance defence industrial capabilities through cooperation in defence research and joint production,
Dplomatic relations between both countries were elevated to the level of “strategic partnership” during the visit of Vietnam’s then-prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung to India in July 2007.
In addition, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Vietnam in 2016, bilateral relations were further elevated to a “comprehensive strategic partnership”.
In recent times, defence engagements between the two nations include wide-ranging contacts between the services, military-to-military exchanges, capacity building, and training programmes,
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