As part of the Australia-India Comprehensive Strategic Partnership announced by Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier today, two landmark Defence Arrangements between Australia and India have been established.
\nThe Australia-India Mutual Logistics Support Arrangement and the Defence Science and Technology Implementing Arrangement provide a framework to deepen defence cooperation between the two countries.
\nMinister for Defence, Senator the Hon Linda Reynolds CSC said India is a significant security partner for Australia.
\n\u201cWe have a strong shared interest in working together to support a stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific,\u201d Minister Reynolds said.
\nThe Mutual Logistics Support Arrangement will enhance military interoperability, enabling increasingly complex military engagement, and greater combined responsiveness to regional humanitarian disasters.
\nThis arrangement paves the way for greater cross-service military activity, building on the success of our most complex exercise to date, AUSINDEX 2019, which focused on anti-submarine warfare.
\nThe Science and Technology Implementing Arrangement will facilitate improved collaboration between our defence science and technology research organisations, both of whom have made important contributions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
\n\u201cWe now have a solid framework for Indian and Australian defence organisations to enhance our research collaboration and develop defence capabilities that help maintain our technological edge in this era of rapid change and increasing threats,\u201d Minister Reynolds said.
\n\u201cThese arrangements reflect India and Australia\u2019s strong commitment to practical global cooperation. We look forward to being able to recommence engagement in person as soon as circumstances permit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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