{"id":317611,"date":"2019-12-09T16:06:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T16:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=317611"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:08:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T16:08:16","slug":"defence-foreign-secretaries-of-india-and-australia-hold-22-secretarial-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/defence-foreign-secretaries-of-india-and-australia-hold-22-secretarial-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence, Foreign Secretaries of India and Australia hold 2+2 secretarial talks"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-317612 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/defence.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"870\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/defence.jpg 870w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/defence-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/defence-768x519.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/defence-696x470.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/defence-621x420.jpg 621w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/>The third India-Australia Secretary-level 2+2 Dialogue was held in New Delhi on Monday. The Indian delegation was led by Defence Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar and Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale, while the Australian side was led by Defence Secretary Greg Moriarty and Foreign Secretary Frances Adamson.<\/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 dialogue, issues related to bilateral defence engagements, areas to enhance cooperation in the field of defence industry and defence technology as well as the prevailing regional security concerns were discussed, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Defence Secretary conveyed his satisfaction on the ongoing defence engagements between the two Armed Forces and conveyed the commitment of the Ministry of Defence to further enhance the defence cooperation engagements, both in scope and complexity, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Before the 2+2 dialogue, both the Defence Secretaries held a bilateral meeting, it added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third India-Australia Secretary-level 2+2 Dialogue was held in New Delhi on Monday. The Indian delegation was led by Defence Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar and Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale, while the Australian side was led by Defence Secretary Greg Moriarty and Foreign Secretary Frances Adamson. During the dialogue, issues related to bilateral defence engagements, areas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":317612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2123,574],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317611"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317613,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317611\/revisions\/317613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/317612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}