Defence Secretary to lead tri-services delegation to China

28 Dec 2012 Evaluate

Defence Secretary Shashikant Sharma will be leading a tri-services delegation to China by next month, i.e. by January 14-15, to discuss the resumption of military exercises between the armed forces of the two countries, as a part of 5th Annual Defence Dialogue between the two sides.

However, by the visit of Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie to India in September, the two sides had agreed to resume their bilateral military exercises in 2013 and increase defence exchanges. Moreover, the two countries have operationalised mechanisms to prevent any face-off between their armed forces along the over 4,000-km long Line of Actual Control (LAC) apart from coordinating in high seas in the Gulf of Aden to tackle piracy.

Military exercises between the two countries had started in 2007 but were put on hold in 2010 after a series of hiccups in the defence ties between the two sides.  Behind the denial of visa to the then Northern Army Commander Lt Gen BS Jaswal by the Chinese in 2010, New Delhi had frozen all bilateral defence exchanges with Beijing. Though, the defence exchanges were revived in recent times, but there have been still some hiccups as China has been refusing to grant visas to armed forces officers from Arunachal Pradesh.

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