In what could come as a big boost to bi-lateral ties,
USA is close to signing three foundational agreements with India in fields of
defense and communications.
Speaking on the issue, USA Pacific Command Commander
Admiral Harry Harris said: “We were moving out aggressively in technical field
with DTTI (Defense Technology and Trade Initiative).” “There are some what we
call foundational agreements that have to be executed with partner nations in
order to move, quote unquote, 'to the next level'. And we are working with
India on the signing of those foundational agreements,” he further added.
Giving his testimony before the House Committee on Armed Services, Harris said,
“Another one is called the CISMOA (Communications and Information Security
Memorandum of Agreement), and it involves communications security so that we
can be assured that India will protect our communications as we would protect
theirs.”
He concluded: "So these are foundation agreements
that we enact with every country we work with. We have not gotten to the point
of signing them with India, but I think we're close. We're closer now than we
ever have been, and I'm encouraged by what I'm hearing from my colleagues in
India and I look forward to having that discussion with them when I go there
next week."
The USA Pacific Command is a unified combatant command
of the United States armed forces responsible for the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.
It is the oldest and largest of the unified combatant commands.
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