{"id":306978,"date":"2018-12-14T04:40:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T04:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306978"},"modified":"2018-12-14T04:40:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T04:40:19","slug":"india-russia-discuss-defence-cooperation-during-18th-irigc-mtc-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-russia-discuss-defence-cooperation-during-18th-irigc-mtc-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"India, Russia discuss Defence Cooperation during 18th\u00a0IRIGC-MTC Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306979 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sitharam-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sitharam-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sitharam-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sitharam.jpg 684w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India&#8217;s Defence minister\u00a0Nirmala Sitharaman\u00a0met with Russian Federation\u00a0General\u00a0Sergei Shoigu\u00a0in Delhi on Thursday, marking the 18th meeting of the India-Russia\u00a0Inter-Governmental Commission on Military Technical Cooperation (IRIGC-MTC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Defence spokesperson tweeted, \u201cRaksha Mantri Smt @nsitharaman with Minister of Defence of Russian Federation Gen @SShoiguRussia signing protocol of 18th meeting and agreement on establishing Indian-Russian Intergovernmental Commission on Military and Military-Technical Cooperation (IRIGC- MTC) on 13 Dec 2018.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the framework of the bilateral Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership, the IRIGC-MTC meeting discussed a wide range of issues relating to defence equipment, industry and technological engagement between\u00a0India\u00a0and\u00a0Russia\u00a0as well as after sales support\/upgradation of military equipment of Russian origin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Ministers expressed satisfaction at the dynamism and progress in bilateral defence cooperation. Intensive discussions were held on\u00a0joint manufacturing\u00a0projects, including the Kamov-226T helicopters, naval frigates and projects related to land systems. The two sides also agreed to take forward inter-governmental arrangements for facilitating\u00a0joint manufacturing\u00a0of spares for Russian\u00a0origin equipment\u00a0in India, under the &#8216;Make in India&#8217; initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With a view to enhancing military-to-military engagement and rationalising the functioning of the Commission, a revised Inter-Governmental Agreement on restructuring the existing IRIGC-MTC to the IRIGC on Military and Military Technical Cooperation was also signed by the two Ministers. An additional institutional Working Group headed by Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to the Chairman COSE (CISC) and Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of General Staff of Armed Forces of Russian Federation would be set up under the expanded Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Ministers expressed satisfaction progress in structured engagement between their armed forces, including joint exercises, resumption of training exchanges and other interactions in the framework of the Bilateral Road Map on Defence Cooperation signed in June 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The inaugural meeting of the IRIGC-MTC is proposed to be held in Russia in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Defence minister\u00a0Nirmala Sitharaman\u00a0met with Russian Federation\u00a0General\u00a0Sergei Shoigu\u00a0in Delhi on Thursday, marking the 18th meeting of the India-Russia\u00a0Inter-Governmental Commission on Military Technical Cooperation (IRIGC-MTC). Defence spokesperson tweeted, \u201cRaksha Mantri Smt @nsitharaman with Minister of Defence of Russian Federation Gen @SShoiguRussia signing protocol of 18th meeting and agreement on establishing Indian-Russian Intergovernmental Commission on Military and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10271,574,4753,861,10272],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306978"}],"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=306978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306980,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306978\/revisions\/306980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}