Ministry of Defence

Military Ties With Foreign Countries

Posted On: 08 AUG 2017 3:11PM by PIB Delhi

            India has signed agreements / Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) on defence cooperation with several countries, which cover a range of activities including training, exchange of personnel and financial aspects of cooperation.  A list of such agreements / MOUs signed over the past three years is as under:-

LIST OF MILITARY OR DEFENCE AGREEMENT SIGNED WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES FOR LAST THREE YEARS (FROM 1ST AUGUST 2014)

Sl.No.

Name of Country

 Title

Date of Signing

1

Bangladesh

MoU between the Coast Guards for establishment of Collaborative Relationship to Combat Transnational Illegal activities at sea and Develop Regional Cooperation

06.06.2015

MoU on Defence Cooperation Framework

08.04.2017

2

Botswana

MoU on secondment of Indian Armed Forces Personnel to the Botswana Defence Forces

15.09.2014

3

France

 

Inter-Governmental Agreement for procurement of 36 Rafale aircrafts.

23.09.2016

4

Fiji

MoU on Bilateral Defence Cooperation

29.05.2017

5

Japan

MoU on Defence Cooperation and Exchange

01.09.2014

Agreement concerning the Transfer of Defence Equipment and Technology.

12.12.2015

Agreement concerning security measures for protection of classified military information

12.12.2015

6

Kazakhstan

MoU on Defence and Military Technical Cooperation

08.07.2015

7

Kenya

MoU on Cooperation in the field of Defence Cooperation

11.07.2016

8

Kyrgyzstan

Defence Cooperation Agreement

12.07.2015

9

Oman

MoU on Military Cooperation

22.05.2016

MoU to cooperate on Maritime Issues

22.05.2016

Protocol between the Air Forces on Flight Safety Information  Exchange

22.05.2016

MoU between the Coast Guards in the field of   Marine Crime Prevention at Sea

22.05.2016

10

Portugal

MoU on Defence Cooperation

07.01.2017

11

Republic of Korea

MoU between the Defence Acquisition Program Administration of RoK and the Ministry of Defence, India to develop and strengthen defence industry cooperation and to establish Special Strategic Partnership including close cooperation in Naval Ship Building.

21.04.2017

12

Russia

Agreement on Training of Indian Armed Forces personnel in the Russian Military Training Establishment

11.12.2014

Agreement between the MoD of India and the MoD of Russia on Cooperation in Aircraft Flight Safety

21.01.2015

Agreement between the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the Russian Federation on Cooperation in the field of Helicopter Engineering.

24.12.2015

Agreement between the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the Russian Federation on Supply of S-400 Triumph Air Defence Missile Systems to the Republic of India.

15.10.2016

Agreement between the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the Russian Federation for construction of follow-on ships of Project 11356 in Russia and in India.

15.10.2016

13

Seychelles

MoU for Cooperation in the field of Hydrography

11.03.2015

14

Singapore

Defence Cooperation Agreement

23.11.2015

15

Spain

MoU on sharing classified information

04.03.2015

16

Sudan

MoU on Defence Cooperation and Exchanges

13.03.2015

17

Tanzania

MoU on Cooperation in the field of Hydrography

19.06.2015

18

Turkmenistan

Agreement on Cooperation in the field of Defence

11.07.2015

19

United Arab Emirates

MoU concerning Mutual Protection of Classified Information

23.05.2016

Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in the field of Defence Industry.

25.01.2017

20

USA

New Framework for the India-US Defence Relationship

03.06.2015

Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA)

29.08.2016

21

Vietnam

MoU between Coast Guards for establishment of collaborative relationship  to combat transnational crime and develop mutual cooperation

25.05.2015

Programme of Cooperation between the Vietnam People’s Air Force & Air Defence and Indian Air Force

05.12.2016

 

The issue pertains to internal budgetary deliberations of the United States, on which we have no comments to offer.

India has defence partnerships with several countries including France, Israel, Russia and United States, as well as countries in our immediate and extended neighbourhood.

This information was given by Minister of State for Defence Dr. Subhash Bhamre in a written reply to Dr. Sanjay Sinh in Rajya Sabha today.

 

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