Key highlights of the visit:
- India and South Korea concluded a military logistics agreement to extend logistical support to each other’s Navies. India will be able to get assured logistic support when it operates in the Indo-Pacific in the ports of South Korea.
- A MoU was signed to further defence educational exchanges.
- The two countries also formulated a forward-looking road map to take bilateral defence industry cooperation to the next level. It includes proposed areas of cooperation in land, aero and naval systems, R&D cooperation and collaboration in testing, certification and quality assurance.
- Rajnath Singh also invited the South Korean industry to explore the feasibility of local production of items, used in main weapon systems imported by defence public sector undertakings (PSUs).
- He stressed that South Korea’s ‘New Southern Policy’ and India’s ‘Act East Policy’ will provide a strong framework for future engagement and consolidation of Special Strategic Partnership between the two countries.
