India, U.K. sign two deals during Defence Minister’s visit

• India and the UK recently signed significant agreements during India’s Defence Minister’s visit.

The Agreements

• A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for bilateral international cadet exchange programme.
• A Letter of Arrangement (LoA) on defence collaboration in Research and Development.
  • The LoA on R&D was signed between India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL).

Key Highlights

• This is the first visit by an Indian Defence Minister to the UK after over two decades.
• The Defence Minister highlighted fruitful discussions on a wide range of issues.
  • These include defence cooperation, security and also on enhancing defence industrial cooperation.
• The signed documents will provide impetus to
  • The people-to-people exchanges particularly among the youth
  • larger area of defence research collaboration between the two countries

Prelims Takeaway

• India and United Kingdom
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