Posted by- Neelam
Mathews
June 4, 2013
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| Singapore Army training in Brunei |
Singapore, that had a
few years ago, found India to be too expensive to conduct its army training,
reaching out to South Africa instead, has now signed a fresh agreement with India to
extend the use of training and exercise facilities by the Singapore
Army for a further period of five years from August this year.
The agreement was
signed by the Indian Defense Secretary Radha Krishna Mathur and the Singaporean
Permanent Secretary of Defense Chiang Chie Foo in the presence of the Defense
Ministers of the two countries, AK Antony and Ng Eng Hen.
A bilateral agreement
for utilization of facilities in India by the Singapore Air Force and Army was
signed in October 2007 and August 2000. The agreement for training and
exercises of Singapore Air Force in India was extended up to October 2017
during the visit of Singapore’s Permanent Secretary of Defense to India in July
last year. Singapore is the only
country to which India offers such facilities.
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