{"id":303780,"date":"2018-10-05T05:38:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T05:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303780"},"modified":"2018-10-05T05:38:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T05:38:52","slug":"india-and-kazakhstan-agree-to-step-up-defence-and-military-technical-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-and-kazakhstan-agree-to-step-up-defence-and-military-technical-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"India and Kazakhstan agree to step up Defence and Military Technical Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303781 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/raksha-mantrix-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/raksha-mantrix-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/raksha-mantrix-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/raksha-mantrix.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/raksha-mantrix-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/raksha-mantrix-745x420.jpg 745w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India and Kazakhstan agreed to step up their cooperation in the defence and military Technical sector. The agreement came after Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met her counterpart Nurlan Yermekbayev during her three-day visit to Kazakhstan\u00a0capital\u00a0Astana\u00a0from October 02.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sitharaman also met her Kazakh counterpart and Minister of Defence and Aerospace Industry Beibut Atamkulov and discussed a wide range of issues relating to defence and military technical cooperation. They also took stock of the progress that the bilateral relationship has made since the renewal of the MoU on\u00a0defence cooperation\u00a0in January 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India and Kazakhstan Defence Cooperation includes military-technical cooperation, military education and training, joint military exercises, bilateral exchange of visits and cadet youth exchange programs.\u00a0 Over 200 Kazakh Defence Forces Personnel have undergone military training in India till date.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The two nations successfully conducted a company level joint military exercise \u2018KAZIND-2018\u2019 in South Kazakhstan, last month. India and Kazakhstan are bound by historical and cultural ties and this has laid a strong foundation for the multifaceted cooperation.\u00a0 Both countries are Strategic Partners since 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nirmala Sitharaman also discussed issues relating to defence production with Atamkulov. The possibilities of joint production were discussed based upon the relative strengths and experience of both sides. She also discussed regional developments with the Kazakhstan Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov. The Kazakhstan FM appreciated India\u2019s position and experience as a major force in UN Peace Keeping and contributor peace building in various parts of the world under the UN mandate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Moreover, Sitharaman invited the Minister of Defence, Nurlan Yermekbayev and Minister of Defence and Aerospace Industry, Beibut Atamkulov to visit India and to attend the Aero India 2019, to be held in Bengaluru in February 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India and Kazakhstan agreed to step up their cooperation in the defence and military Technical sector. The agreement came after Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met her counterpart Nurlan Yermekbayev during her three-day visit to Kazakhstan\u00a0capital\u00a0Astana\u00a0from October 02.\u00a0\u00a0 Sitharaman also met her Kazakh counterpart and Minister of Defence and Aerospace Industry Beibut Atamkulov and discussed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[5426,293,574,3657,5425],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303780"}],"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=303780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303784,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303780\/revisions\/303784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}