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2+2 dialogue: India, US to protect rules-based order

October 27, 2020October 27, 2020 - by India Writes Network

Amid growing global turbulence, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has called for enhanced partnership between India and the US to protect rules-based international order and combat regional and global challenges. …

Logistics pact to tighten India-US strategic embrace

August 30, 2016August 30, 2016 - by Manish Chand

In the emerging alphabet of India-US relations, another acronym LEMOA has been added as the two countries signed a landmark logistics exchange agreement that will enable their militaries to access each other’s military supplies and refuelling capabilities through ports and military bases.
The agreement was signed in Washington DC on August 29, a day before India and the US hold their second strategic and commercial dialogue in New Delhi. The pact is a leap of faith for India as the long-negotiated pact was bogged down in apprehensions in India regarding infringement of the country’s sovereignty in the military sphere. The inking of the pact underscores the Modi government’s design to risk political pressure to deepen military and strategic ties with the world’s most powerful country.
India’s Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and his US counterpart Ashton Carter lauded the signing of the bilateral ‘Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement’ (52940157), saying the pact will facilitate opportunities for “practical engagement and exchange”.