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India will station maritime patrol aircraft in Australia amid ongoing concerns of hostility in the Indo-Pacific region, a move that comes as part of a larger package that will see the Australian government commit around AU$200 million (US$147 million) into developing the relationship.Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met virtually on March 21, where they discussed closer ties across sectors such as trade, clean technology, space, culture, defence, and the Indo-Pacific.While the Australian prime minister did not express the need for both nations to hold “Russia to account” for the invasion of Ukraine—according to a...

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta urged India on Wednesday to build a closer military relationship with the United States, but Indian leaders appeared more interested in buying U.S. weapons than in aligning strategically with Washington. Senior Indian officials made it clear in two days of talks that they will continue to set their own course on U.S. national security priorities, including isolating Iran and building up Afghanistan's military forces, sometimes in tandem with Washington and sometimes not. Panetta is visiting Asia this week to bolster military ties as the Obama administration, wary ofChina's growing clout in the region, seeks to...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he will boost military cooperation with China, including holding more joint exercises, after the United States announced plans to shift most of its warships to the Asia-Pacific by 2020. Putin referred to recent Sino-Russian joint navy exercises in the Yellow Sea as an example of military cooperation which, he said, would go on. "We will continue cooperation also between our military," he told Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping in Beijing, where he is attending a security summit and meeting his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao. "Recently joint navy exercises were held in the Yellow...

Israel and Turkey are reactivating their military ties, beginning with a coordination mechanism between the two air forces. The link exists to prevent aerial mishaps and potential disasters between aircraft from the two nations over the Mediterranean Sea. The coordination mechanism was recently reactivated, a senior IAF officer said, as part of the effort on both sides to stabilize and improve relations. Turkey's military attache to Israel also attended an IAF briefing for foreign military officers two weeks ago. .....

Vietnam, U.S. to Improve Intelligence, Military Ties Premier Discusses Goals Before Visit By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, June 17, 2005; Page A01 HANOI, June 16 -- Once enemies in battle, Vietnam and the United States will cooperate in the exchange of intelligence on terrorism and transnational crime, and Vietnam will send military officers for training in the United States, Prime Minister Phan Van Khai said Thursday on the eve of the first U.S. trip by a top Vietnamese Communist leader. The intelligence and military cooperation agreements will be announced when Khai visits next week, marking the highest-level...

Nothing can take the place of meeting foreign military leaders in their countries as the United States seeks to build military-to-military ties, said Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff finished a five-day visit to South America and Haiti March 13. In South America, the chairman spoke with military and civilian leaders on bilateral and multilateral relations. The chairman visited Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Chile before stopping in Haiti. The United States has long-standing close relationships with each country. The trip had been planned for months, long before the situation in Haiti became...

It is still too soon to say definitively who launched the terrorist attacks in Spain March 11 that killed almost 200 people and wounded more than 1,400, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said during a press conference here March 12. Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, on a visit to the region to improve military- to-military ties, said the "heinous terrorist attacks" reinforce the need to combat the scourge of terrorism around the world. He said the United States stands "shoulder-to-shoulder" with Spain in the war on terrorism. Myers said Spanish officials must perform more investigations before...

2002 Financial Times Information All rights reserved Global News Wire - Asia Africa Intelligence Wire Copyright 2002 BBC Monitoring/BBC BBC Monitoring International Reports December 9, 2002 LENGTH: 315 words HEADLINE: XIONG GUANGKAI TO ATTEND CHINA-US VICE-MINISTERIAL DEFENCE CONSULTATION BODY: Zhongguo Xinwen She Washington, 8 December: Today, a PRC People's Republic of China senior military delegation led by Xiong Guangkai, deputy chief of general staff of the People's Liberation Army, arrived in Washington. China and the United States are set to hold the fifth defence ministry's vice-ministerial defence consultation in Pentagon on 9 December. The Sino-US Defence Ministry's Vice-Ministerial Defence Consultation...

BEIJING: China has asked the US not to undermine bilateral ties by supporting Taiwan's bid for independence through closer military links. "The United States should desist from meddling in the Taiwan issue to avoid damaging Sino-US relations," Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Jianchao said. "China firmly opposes any form of military cooperation or contact between the United States and Taiwan, as it violates the principles of the three Sino-US joint communiques," he said. Liu made the remarks on Tuesday when asked to comment on the newly-signed US-Defence authorisation bill for fiscal year 2003 passed by the US Congress. China had...