India and Bangladesh on Thursday agreed to further step up their
bilateral defence ties, with greater military-to-military
engagements, capacity-building and defence-industrial cooperation,
Trend reports
citing TOI.
This was decided during the 4th India-Bangladesh annual defence
dialogue (ADD), co-chaired by defence secretary Ajay Kumar and the
principal staff officer of Bangladesh’s armed forces division
Lt-General Waker-Uz-Zaman.
The Indian armed forces are working towards “building capacity’’
of the Bangladesh military, which ranges from training and
exercises to military supplies and defence technologies.
“The AAD covered the existing bilateral exercises and training,
with the two sides agreeing to increase the complexity of these
exercises,” a defence ministry official said.
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