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India-UAE Defence Relations
Context
During Sheikh Hamdan’s visit to India (his first as Dubai’s Crown Prince), both countries decided to deepen their defence and Coast Guard collaboration.
Defence and Security Cooperation
- Both sides agreed to scale up defence cooperation to match growing trade ties.
- Key focus on:
- Joint training programs
- Defence manufacturing and innovation
- Co-production and co-development projects
- India and the UAE agreed to formalise their Coast Guard-to-Coast Guard cooperation through a dedicated Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
- Both side emphasised on India-UAE Defence Partnership Forum and participation in each other’s defence expos.
- Background: The Defence Cooperation MoU with the UAE was signed in 2003, and an MoU on Defence Industry Cooperation was signed in 2017. Over the years, the bilateral defence relationship has evolved to include regular high-level exchanges, naval visits, and training programmes.
- Both countries played active roles in the UN Security Council during their respective terms, with India chairing the Counter-Terrorism Committee in 2022 and the UAE in 2023.
- Landmark contributions include the adoption of the Delhi Declaration on the misuse of emerging technologies for terrorism and the Abu Dhabi Guiding Principles addressing threats from unmanned aerial systems.
- India and UAE share a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. Their cooperation covers a wide range of sectors: trade, technology, energy, defence, and people-to-people ties.
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