A spokesman for the Indian Navy said India and the Russian Navy will begin the eleventh edition of Exercise Indra Navy, a biennial maritime exercise in the Bay of Bengal from September 4-5.
Earlier, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh met with his Russian counterpart General Sergey Shoigu in the Russian capital Moscow, where the two ministers had a discussion on deepening defense and strategic cooperation between the two. countries. He described the meeting with the Russian defense minister as “excellent”.
Singh, who arrived in Moscow on Wednesday, is on a three-day visit to attend a crucial meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) together with the defense minister of seven member countries: Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. .
India became a member of the SCO in 2017. Friday’s meeting takes place amid a fierce border dispute between India and China, both members of the influential bloc.
Meanwhile, it was taken into account that Thursday’s meetings coincided with the exercises of the Indra Navy that will take place in front of the Strait of Malacca over the next two days.
Singh noted that these naval exercises demonstrated the common interests of both nations in maritime security in the Indian Ocean Region.
(With contributions from ANI)
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