The first
meeting of the India-Saudi Arabia Joint Committee on Defence Cooperation
was held here today. The 11-member Saudi delegation was headed by Maj
Gen Suleiman Saleh Al-Khalifa, Chief of the Armed Forces Operations of
Saudi Arabia. The Indian delegation was headed by Joint Secretary,
Ministry of Defence.
The
establishment of the Joint Committee had been decided during the meeting
of the Defence Minister Shri AK Antony with the Saudi Defence Minister
(and now also Crown Prince) Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, during
the Defence Minister’s visit to Saudi Arabia in February, 2012. The
Joint Committee was mandated to formulate a programme to develop areas
of cooperation between the defence establishments of both countries.
During the
meeting both sides expressed their interest in further enhancing defence
exchanges and interactions between their armed forces. Proposals for
exchange of high level visits, training exchanges and functional
exchanges in various areas were discussed and will be finalized over the
coming weeks.
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