New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh accompanied by MEA’s (Ministry of External affairs) Jaishankar signed two memorandum of understanding over defence collaboration with UK during a bilateral meeting in London.
A MoU was signed on conduct of bilateral international cadet exchange programme and a Letter of Arrangement between Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) on defence collaboration in research and development,” the ministry said.
It said that these documents will provide impetus to the people-to-people exchanges particularly among the youth, and larger area of defence research collaboration between the two countries.
The ministry said that ministers discussed a range of defence, security and cooperation matters with particular emphasis on enhancing defence industrial collaboration.
The ministry said that the Defence Minister noted with appreciation the growing strategic convergence between the two countries, particularly in the Indo-Pacific.