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| Singapore keen to deepen defence links with India |
| 2006-06-06 |
| SINGAPORE - Singapore is keen to formalise its budding defence links with India and sign an agreement on troop training, Singapore’s defence minister said on Monday. An initial agreement to allow Singaporean ground troops and air force to train in India in the past two years was the latest in a string of defence agreements for the land-scarce city-state. Singapore already has similar arrangements with partners such as Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Brunei, Thailand, the United States and France. “Both the Indians and ourselves feel that this is a worthwhile cooperative relationship and we hope to sign an agreement that will allow this relationship, in particular the training relationship, to go on into the future,” Singapore Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean told Reuters in an interview. |
| Posted by:Steve White |