{"id":303251,"date":"2018-09-26T05:38:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T05:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303251"},"modified":"2018-09-26T05:38:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T05:38:07","slug":"india-and-morocco-agreed-to-enhance-bilateral-cooperation-in-the-field-of-defence-and-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-and-morocco-agreed-to-enhance-bilateral-cooperation-in-the-field-of-defence-and-security\/","title":{"rendered":"India and Morocco agreed to enhance bilateral cooperation in the field of defence and security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-and-morocco-agreed-to-enhance-bilateral-cooperation-in-the-field-of-defence-and-security\/india-morocco\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-303252\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303252 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/india-morocco-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/india-morocco-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/india-morocco-768x406.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/india-morocco-1024x541.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/india-morocco-696x368.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/india-morocco-1068x565.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/india-morocco-794x420.jpg 794w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/india-morocco.jpg 1146w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a>Moroccan Defence Minister Abdeltif Loudyi on Tuesday met Defence Minister Nirmala Sitaraman in South Block in New Delhi to enhance bilateral cooperation between both the countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">During the meeting, both Ministers agreed to enhance bilateral cooperation in the field of\u00a0defence\u00a0and security. The Minister identified fields of Hydrography, Peacekeeping, Telemedicine, Information Technology and Communications as well as Counter Terrorism and Counter Insurgency as potential areas for bilateral engagement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Cooperation on\u00a0defence\u00a0industry, including collaboration in Ship Building and manufacturing support were also discussed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Two bilateral MoUs, \u00a0\u2018Cooperation in Peaceful Uses of Outer Space\u2019 between ISRO and the Moroccan Centre of Remote Sensing and \u2018Cooperation in the area of Cyber Security\u2019 between the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT \u2013IN), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the Moroccan Computer Response Team (ma-CERT) were signed in the presence of both Defence Ministers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Moroccan delegation will also visit and interact with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) facilities at Bengaluru as part of programme for their\u00a0two day\u00a0official visit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nirmala Sitaraman also invited the Moroccan Defence Minister to attend Aero India 2019 to be held in Bengaluru in February 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moroccan Defence Minister Abdeltif Loudyi on Tuesday met Defence Minister Nirmala Sitaraman in South Block in New Delhi to enhance bilateral cooperation between both the countries. During the meeting, both Ministers agreed to enhance bilateral cooperation in the field of\u00a0defence\u00a0and security. The Minister identified fields of Hydrography, Peacekeeping, Telemedicine, Information Technology and Communications as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[5217,1274,4755,5216,1427,5218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303254,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303251\/revisions\/303254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}