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India-US 2 Plus 2 Dialogue: India & US signed landmark COMCASA agreement
India-US 2 Plus 2 Dialogue: India & US signed landmark COMCASA agreement: Details, Aim, Significance, Highlights
India and the United States signed the Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement (COMCASA) during their first-ever held ‘2 plus 2’ dialogue, in New Delhi on 6th September 2018.
The COMCASA agreement will open up the way for the sale of more sensitive US military equipment to India. The COMCASA Agreement will also help India to obtain critical and encrypted defence technologies for the Indian defence platforms from the United States.
India-US to strength defence innovation, a Memorandum of Intent was signed between the U.S. Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the Indian Defence Innovation Organization — Innovation for Defence Excellence (DIO-iDEX), which will look into joint projects for co-production and co-development projects through the Defense Technology and Trade Initiative (DTTI).
India-Us also maintained that the Indo-Pacific region has emerged as an important part of bilateral cooperation and emphasised need to keep it open for maritime trade and free of disputes.
India-US 2 plus 2 dialogue witnessed high-level talks between the foreign and defense ministries of both the nations. India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman hosted the US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and US Secretary of Defense James Mattis for the inaugural dialogue.
India and the U.S. would also hold a first-ever tri-service exercise on the east coast of India in 2019
