The US Secretary of Navy, Kenneth J Braithwaite visited Western Naval Command headquarters in Mumbai.
Mumbai:
US Secretary of Navy Kenneth J Braithwaite visited Western Naval Command headquarters in Mumbai Thursday and interacted with Vice Admiral Ajit Kumar, CinC, WNC, stated the general public relations officer, defence, Mumbai.
“The US Secretary of Navy, Mr Kenneth J Braithwaite visited the Western Naval Command in Mumbai on 17th December. He interacted with Vice Adm Ajit Kumar, CinC WNC and also visited the new aircraft carrier dock at naval dockyard,” the PRO stated in a tweet.
The tweet added, “The visit will further strengthen the existing India-US Defence relationship.”
The go to comes after India and the United States on Tuesday signed the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA) and 4 extra paperwork in the course of the third 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue.
According to an official assertion issued by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), the BECA was signed between the Ministry of Defence and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Department of Defense of United States of America.
BECA permits the militaries of the 2 international locations to share geospatial info, high-end army expertise and categorised satellite tv for pc information on defence-related points.
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