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India-Pakistan
India to supply warship spares to Vietnam
2007-12-19
As part of measures to boost strategic defence ties with Vietnam, India will supply vital spares of Russian origin Petya class warships and send an expert team to train army of the country.

The announcement to supply 5000 essential spares, which would enable Vietnam to again operationalise its Russian anti-submarine warships, was made by Defence Minister A K Antony after a meeting with his Vietnamese counterpart General Phung Quang Thanh in Hanoi.

Antony, on his first visit to Vietnam, also said a four member army team would go to Hanoi in the first half of next year to train Vietnamese army on conduct of UN Peacekeeping operations. The two countries also agreed to set up a Joint Working group to frame to form a framework for boosting further defence cooperation, a defence ministry release said here.
Little by little Vietnam comes back into the world community. They're in the world trade organization, they have a trade relationship with the U.S., and now this. Next step is to nudge the commies out of the way in Hanoi much the way other authoritarian regimes had to make way for democracy when there was enough prosperity.
Vietnam, which has been a close ally of India, evinced interest to take Indian help in application of information technology in defence and technical support to the country's navy.

The Vietnamese Defence Minister also suggested increase in Joint Naval and Military level exercises between the two countries. The Vietnamese Minister also thanked India for imparting training to a number of its armed forces personnel.

Antony, who is on a three day official visit to Vietnam, said the new measures initiated today will open a "new strategic chapter in defence cooperation" between the two countries. "Commonality of views of the two countries in many areas are a reflection of our shared strategic interests," Antony told his host. He also congratulated Vietnam on being elected as a new non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.
Posted by:john frum

#2  would enable Vietnam to again operationalise its Russian anti-submarine warships

Gosh, you don't think they'd be going after Chicom subs, do you? One might expect the Chicoms to be upset about that.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2007-12-19 12:10  

#1  Compare wid NOSI > SOUTH AFRICA CAN'T AFFORD TO RUN ITS NEW SUBS. No money, no honey for the SA Navy.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-12-19 00:48  

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