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Mr Mukherjee is accompanied on the visit by a delegation that includes Minister of State for Petroleum & Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan and six members of Parliament -- P.C. Mohan, BJP, Bangalore Central; Supriya Sule, NCP, Baramati; Bhartruhari Mahtab, BJD, Cuttack; Parvesh Sahib Singh, BJP, West Delhi; K.V. Thomas, INC, Ernakulam; and Ponnusamy Venugopal, AIADMK, Thiruvalluvar.
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India and Vietnam sign seven agreements to strenghten ties
New Delhi: Seeking closer ties with Vietnam, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung signed seven agreements on Tuesday. "India and Vietnam have close ancient, spiritual and cultural bond. Both of us believe in maintaining peace and prosperity in the region," Modi said. India has agreed to increase cooperation in space and will operationalise a line of credit of $ 100 million for Vietnam, Modi said. India has also committed to provide support for modernization of Vietnam's Security forces. Vietnam has offered two more oil blocks to India and extended contract of another oil block for two more years. Prime Minister Modi thanked Dung for Vietnam's co- sponsorship of the resolution in the United Nations to declare June 21 as International Yoga Day. Dung extended invitation to Modi to visit Vietnam and said, "Both sides has agreed to work together in areas of science & technology, culture & education, tourism and maritime security."
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New Delhi: Seeking closer ties with Vietnam, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung signed seven agreements on Tuesday. "India and Vietnam have close ancient, spiritual and cultural bond. Both of us believe in maintaining peace and prosperity in the region," Modi said. India has agreed to increase cooperation in space and will operationalise a line of credit of $ 100 million for Vietnam, Modi said. India has also committed to provide support for modernization of Vietnam's Security forces. Vietnam has offered two more oil blocks to India and extended contract of another oil block for two more years. Prime Minister Modi thanked Dung for Vietnam's co- sponsorship of the resolution in the United Nations to declare June 21 as International Yoga Day. Dung extended invitation to Modi to visit Vietnam and said, "Both sides has agreed to work together in areas of science & technology, culture & education, tourism and maritime security."
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India to supply Vietnam with naval vessels amid China disputes
India and Vietnam today decided to boost their defence and strategic partnership that will see supply of four naval patrol vessels to Hanoi as part of $100 million Line of Credit (LoC) signed last month and enhancement in training program for the military of Southeast Asian nation. The two countries also decided to ramp up cooperation in the field of hydrocarbon, civil nuclear energy and space........
Vietnam wants the vessel for surveillance off its coast and around its military bases in the Spratly island chain in the South China Sea where it is building a credible naval deterrent to China with Kilo-class submarines from Russia.
Sources also said that talks are on to train Vietnam Air Force pilots in flying Sukhoi fighters as well. India is already training the Vietnam Navy personnel in operating the Russian -origin Kilo-class submarine among other areas.
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India to supply Vietnam with naval vessels amid China disputes - Economic Times
India and Vietnam today decided to boost their defence and strategic partnership that will see supply of four naval patrol vessels to Hanoi as part of $100 million Line of Credit (LoC) signed last month and enhancement in training program for the military of Southeast Asian nation. The two countries also decided to ramp up cooperation in the field of hydrocarbon, civil nuclear energy and space........
Vietnam wants the vessel for surveillance off its coast and around its military bases in the Spratly island chain in the South China Sea where it is building a credible naval deterrent to China with Kilo-class submarines from Russia.
Sources also said that talks are on to train Vietnam Air Force pilots in flying Sukhoi fighters as well. India is already training the Vietnam Navy personnel in operating the Russian -origin Kilo-class submarine among other areas.
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Vietnam as India's Pivot
Vietnam prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung's visit has just ended with a sealing of a defence pact. That this significant accord was readied as a follow-up to the defence Memorandum of Understanding signed a scant month and half after president Pranab Mukherjee's visit to Hanoi suggests New Delhi has finally woken up to Vietnam's seminal importance to India's strategic well-being.
This special standing of Vietnam in India's geopolitics, incidentally, took the ministry of external affairs (MEA) and the Indian government more than a decade to appreciate—from the articulation by then prime minister P V Narasimha Rao in 1992-93 of the "Look East" policy to when his successor, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, betook himself to Hanoi in 2003 which produced the agreement on civilian nuclear cooperation. Another 11 years elapsed before the advent of the Narendra Modi government and this appreciation growing teeth.
Since 2005, I have been advocating the transfer of the Brahmos supersonic cruise missile—the only one of its kind in the world—to Vietnam. In 2007, Hanoi for the first time expressed its keen interest in securing this singularly accurate and lethal weapon to defend itself and deter China from having its way in the disputed sea territories in the South China Sea—almost the whole of which Beijing claims as its own in a brazen bid for a maritime lebensraum. Lebensraum is the concept the Nazi geographer and geopolitical strategist Karl Haushofer coined in the 1930s to justify Germany's policy of territorial aggrandisement at the expense of the Central European states, Poland and Russia. It refers to the "living space" Haushofer said a vigorous Germany needed legitimately to expand in order to increase its resources base, consolidate its strength, and realise its grand ambition. China is the Germany of the 21st Century and it has got to be stopped.
The case that China is India's biggest challenge (not Pakistan that Indians and their government get mightily exercised about) and Vietnam is the pivotal state around which New Delhi can obtain a coalition of Asian rimland and offshore countries to ringfence China was a geostrategic scheme first articulated in my 1994 book "Future Imperilled". So, when the newly founded National Security Advisory Board constituted during Vajpayee's time met with MEA in the autumn of 1998 and I as member of the board, assuming the Indian diplomats were clued into the theories and practice of geopolitics, asked then foreign secretary K Raghunath why India had failed to respond to Beijing's calculated policy of nuclear missile-arming Pakistan over the previous decade with a tit-for-tat gesture and a policy of imposing costs on China, by transferring easily nuclearisable missiles to Vietnam, Raghunath replied with practised certitude. "It is not practicable," he said.
Fast forward 16 years and the impracticable has become Indian policy—the Modi government has decided to pass on the Brahmos missile to Hanoi which, appropriately, finds no mention in the Joint Statement issued by prime ministers Modi and Dung. These anti-ship weapons, for which there's no counter, will be installed in shore batteries along the Vietnamese coast fronting on the Hainan Island, to deter the Chinese South Seas Fleet based there, and as sentinels for that country's offshore claims and oil and gas exploration and drilling assets in the South China Sea, and to dissuade the Chinese navy from capturing disputed sea territories as happened in the case of the Paracel Islands.
The MEA during Manmohan Singh's time turned aside repeated Vietnamese requests for the Brahmos by asserting that the Russian partner company in this project, NPO Maschinostroeyenia was against any such deal. It lost India traction with a strategic partner Indonesia as well, which too had asked for the Brahmos. Denied by New Delhi, Jakarta directly approached Moscow and secured the slightly derated version of the Brahmos, the Ramos. The difference with the onset of the Modi dispensation was that India rather than merely seeking Russian assent for the transfer of this cruise missile to Vietnam pushed for it.
Indeed, the MEA and the ministry of defence (MoD) bureaucrats, who in line with the Congress government's instincts for kowtowing to Beijing routinely vetoed initiatives over the past decade by the armed forces to improve India's relative security position vis-a-vis China by using transfers of armaments and forging military-to-military links, are now more receptive.
With the first stirrings of geopolitical common sense in the fusty corridors of the MEA and MoD, New Delhi will hopefully begin to see that Vietnam can be to India what Pakistan is to China. A Chinese nuclear missile-armed Pakistan, enabled by Beijing to grow its indigenous defence industry beyond the screwdriver technology the Indian defence PSUs are stuck at, and thus to acquire a measure of genuine self-reliance has, as per Beijing's design, contained India to the subcontinent. India, in similar fashion, can prioritise the military build-up of Vietnam (and the Philippines, and Indonesia) as the first tier of India's distant defence with a view to restricting Chinese options east of the Malacca Strait.
The logic behind such a policy, as I keep repeating in my writings, is that if we don't have the stomach for a fight with China and cannot muster the will to stand up to Beijing, let's at least arm the Vietnamese who over a thousand years have bloodied Chinese forces intruding into their country, and never shied away from a fight. It is a cost-effective means of diminishing India's primary security threat and military challenge and, equally important, of paying Beijing back in its own coin.
India also needs to capitalise on the opportunity to distance Vietnam economically from China, incentivising it with lines of credit and Indian investment to plug into the Indian economy instead. In this respect, the business delegation with Dung, hopefully, returned home with a bag full of deals. A more telling measure would be to increase manifold the Indian stake in Vietnam's security by investing in its energy resource sector. ONGC Videsh should act quickly on Dung's offer of new oil blocks inside the Vietnamese claimline in the South China Sea.
Vietnam as India's Pivot - The New Indian Express
Vietnam prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung's visit has just ended with a sealing of a defence pact. That this significant accord was readied as a follow-up to the defence Memorandum of Understanding signed a scant month and half after president Pranab Mukherjee's visit to Hanoi suggests New Delhi has finally woken up to Vietnam's seminal importance to India's strategic well-being.
This special standing of Vietnam in India's geopolitics, incidentally, took the ministry of external affairs (MEA) and the Indian government more than a decade to appreciate—from the articulation by then prime minister P V Narasimha Rao in 1992-93 of the "Look East" policy to when his successor, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, betook himself to Hanoi in 2003 which produced the agreement on civilian nuclear cooperation. Another 11 years elapsed before the advent of the Narendra Modi government and this appreciation growing teeth.
Since 2005, I have been advocating the transfer of the Brahmos supersonic cruise missile—the only one of its kind in the world—to Vietnam. In 2007, Hanoi for the first time expressed its keen interest in securing this singularly accurate and lethal weapon to defend itself and deter China from having its way in the disputed sea territories in the South China Sea—almost the whole of which Beijing claims as its own in a brazen bid for a maritime lebensraum. Lebensraum is the concept the Nazi geographer and geopolitical strategist Karl Haushofer coined in the 1930s to justify Germany's policy of territorial aggrandisement at the expense of the Central European states, Poland and Russia. It refers to the "living space" Haushofer said a vigorous Germany needed legitimately to expand in order to increase its resources base, consolidate its strength, and realise its grand ambition. China is the Germany of the 21st Century and it has got to be stopped.
The case that China is India's biggest challenge (not Pakistan that Indians and their government get mightily exercised about) and Vietnam is the pivotal state around which New Delhi can obtain a coalition of Asian rimland and offshore countries to ringfence China was a geostrategic scheme first articulated in my 1994 book "Future Imperilled". So, when the newly founded National Security Advisory Board constituted during Vajpayee's time met with MEA in the autumn of 1998 and I as member of the board, assuming the Indian diplomats were clued into the theories and practice of geopolitics, asked then foreign secretary K Raghunath why India had failed to respond to Beijing's calculated policy of nuclear missile-arming Pakistan over the previous decade with a tit-for-tat gesture and a policy of imposing costs on China, by transferring easily nuclearisable missiles to Vietnam, Raghunath replied with practised certitude. "It is not practicable," he said.
Fast forward 16 years and the impracticable has become Indian policy—the Modi government has decided to pass on the Brahmos missile to Hanoi which, appropriately, finds no mention in the Joint Statement issued by prime ministers Modi and Dung. These anti-ship weapons, for which there's no counter, will be installed in shore batteries along the Vietnamese coast fronting on the Hainan Island, to deter the Chinese South Seas Fleet based there, and as sentinels for that country's offshore claims and oil and gas exploration and drilling assets in the South China Sea, and to dissuade the Chinese navy from capturing disputed sea territories as happened in the case of the Paracel Islands.
The MEA during Manmohan Singh's time turned aside repeated Vietnamese requests for the Brahmos by asserting that the Russian partner company in this project, NPO Maschinostroeyenia was against any such deal. It lost India traction with a strategic partner Indonesia as well, which too had asked for the Brahmos. Denied by New Delhi, Jakarta directly approached Moscow and secured the slightly derated version of the Brahmos, the Ramos. The difference with the onset of the Modi dispensation was that India rather than merely seeking Russian assent for the transfer of this cruise missile to Vietnam pushed for it.
Indeed, the MEA and the ministry of defence (MoD) bureaucrats, who in line with the Congress government's instincts for kowtowing to Beijing routinely vetoed initiatives over the past decade by the armed forces to improve India's relative security position vis-a-vis China by using transfers of armaments and forging military-to-military links, are now more receptive.
With the first stirrings of geopolitical common sense in the fusty corridors of the MEA and MoD, New Delhi will hopefully begin to see that Vietnam can be to India what Pakistan is to China. A Chinese nuclear missile-armed Pakistan, enabled by Beijing to grow its indigenous defence industry beyond the screwdriver technology the Indian defence PSUs are stuck at, and thus to acquire a measure of genuine self-reliance has, as per Beijing's design, contained India to the subcontinent. India, in similar fashion, can prioritise the military build-up of Vietnam (and the Philippines, and Indonesia) as the first tier of India's distant defence with a view to restricting Chinese options east of the Malacca Strait.
The logic behind such a policy, as I keep repeating in my writings, is that if we don't have the stomach for a fight with China and cannot muster the will to stand up to Beijing, let's at least arm the Vietnamese who over a thousand years have bloodied Chinese forces intruding into their country, and never shied away from a fight. It is a cost-effective means of diminishing India's primary security threat and military challenge and, equally important, of paying Beijing back in its own coin.
India also needs to capitalise on the opportunity to distance Vietnam economically from China, incentivising it with lines of credit and Indian investment to plug into the Indian economy instead. In this respect, the business delegation with Dung, hopefully, returned home with a bag full of deals. A more telling measure would be to increase manifold the Indian stake in Vietnam's security by investing in its energy resource sector. ONGC Videsh should act quickly on Dung's offer of new oil blocks inside the Vietnamese claimline in the South China Sea.
Vietnam as India's Pivot - The New Indian Express
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India, Vietnam held strategic defence dialogue
Aiming to deepen bilateral military cooperation, India and Vietnam today held strategic defence dialogue here. The Vietnamese delegation was led by Deputy Defence Minister Senior Lt Gen Ngyyen Chi Vinh, while the Indian side was headed by Defence Secretary R K Mathur. Vinh also called on National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Army chief Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag. The annual dialogue comes two months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held wide-ranging talks with his Vietnamese counterpart here. Though defence officials remained tight-lipped about what transpired during the meeting, sources said all issues relating to cooperation in the crucial sector were discussed. According to official sources, Vietnam has agreed to buy four patrol vessels for its Navy under the Line of Credit Scheme extended by India but is yet to formally identify the shipyard it wants them from. Vietnam wants the vessel for surveillance off its coast and around its military bases in the Spratly island chain in the South China Sea where it is building a credible naval deterrent to China with Kilo-class submarines from Russia. The sources also said that talks are on to train Vietnam Air Force pilots in flying Sukhoi fighters as well. India is already training Vietnam Navy personnel in operating the Russian-origin Kilo-class submarine among other areas. India and Vietnam have a long- standing defence relationship but it has been restricted to military exchanges, training, spares and maintenance of military hardware.
India, Vietnam held strategic defence dialogue | Business Standard News
Aiming to deepen bilateral military cooperation, India and Vietnam today held strategic defence dialogue here. The Vietnamese delegation was led by Deputy Defence Minister Senior Lt Gen Ngyyen Chi Vinh, while the Indian side was headed by Defence Secretary R K Mathur. Vinh also called on National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Army chief Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag. The annual dialogue comes two months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held wide-ranging talks with his Vietnamese counterpart here. Though defence officials remained tight-lipped about what transpired during the meeting, sources said all issues relating to cooperation in the crucial sector were discussed. According to official sources, Vietnam has agreed to buy four patrol vessels for its Navy under the Line of Credit Scheme extended by India but is yet to formally identify the shipyard it wants them from. Vietnam wants the vessel for surveillance off its coast and around its military bases in the Spratly island chain in the South China Sea where it is building a credible naval deterrent to China with Kilo-class submarines from Russia. The sources also said that talks are on to train Vietnam Air Force pilots in flying Sukhoi fighters as well. India is already training Vietnam Navy personnel in operating the Russian-origin Kilo-class submarine among other areas. India and Vietnam have a long- standing defence relationship but it has been restricted to military exchanges, training, spares and maintenance of military hardware.
India, Vietnam held strategic defence dialogue | Business Standard News
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Vietnam may import more Indian textile raw materials
The Vietnamese envoy to India, Ton Sinh Thanh thanked the Indian government for extending a US $ 300 million line of credit for strengthening of commercial ties between the two countries. Addressing media on the sidelines of a meeting with members of the Exim Club Association in Vadodara, he hoped that it will enable Vietnam to import more of fabrics and yarns from India. Vietnam is currently importing about half of its textile raw material requirements of yarn and fabrics from China. "The Indian government's offer to extend the line of credit may help India grab a larger share of textile raw material imports," the ambassador said, who was in Gujarat to attend the Vibrant Gujarat Summit. "Alongside cotton imports, Vietnam also seeks investment of India in the textile, chemical dyes and other related sectors," he said. He explained that Vietnam allows 100 per cent investment in many sectors including joint ventures with Vietnamese companies. The envoy also expects that bilateral trade between India and Vietnam is likely to touch $20 billion by 2020. (AR)
India : Vietnam may import more Indian textile raw materials - Textile News India
The Vietnamese envoy to India, Ton Sinh Thanh thanked the Indian government for extending a US $ 300 million line of credit for strengthening of commercial ties between the two countries. Addressing media on the sidelines of a meeting with members of the Exim Club Association in Vadodara, he hoped that it will enable Vietnam to import more of fabrics and yarns from India. Vietnam is currently importing about half of its textile raw material requirements of yarn and fabrics from China. "The Indian government's offer to extend the line of credit may help India grab a larger share of textile raw material imports," the ambassador said, who was in Gujarat to attend the Vibrant Gujarat Summit. "Alongside cotton imports, Vietnam also seeks investment of India in the textile, chemical dyes and other related sectors," he said. He explained that Vietnam allows 100 per cent investment in many sectors including joint ventures with Vietnamese companies. The envoy also expects that bilateral trade between India and Vietnam is likely to touch $20 billion by 2020. (AR)
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India and Vietnam Push Ahead with Strategic Security Cooperation
Vietnam’s defense minister is in India, with a maritime security-focused agenda.
Vietnamese Defense Minister Phùng Quang Thanh is in India for a three-day visit this week. On Monday, Thanh met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar. Thanh’s visit to India is intended to bolster strategic ties between India and Vietnam and comes at a time of rising tensions in the South China Sea–where Vietnam disputes the sovereignty of various islands and reefs with China. Additionally, the Indian government has framed its approach toward Vietnam in terms of its proactive “Act East” policy. Parallel to Thanh’s visit to New Delhi, Indian and Vietnamese senior diplomats held their seventh deputy ministerial-level political consultation in Hanoi.
According to a statement posted on the Indian Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) website, “Gen. Thanh briefed Prime Minister Modi about defence and security related developments in the India-Vietnam bilateral relationship. Prime Minister Modi expressed satisfaction at the progress made in bilateral defence and security cooperation since the visit of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.” Thanh’s visit carries forward the bilateral India-Vietnam agenda that was established during Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s October 2014 visit to India. Thanh “thanked Prime Minister Modi for India’s strong and growing defence and security relationship with Vietnam, and for India’s support and assistance in this regard,” and Modi, for his part, assured Thanh of “India’s full commitment to the strategic partnership between the two countries.”
Thanh’s visit resulted in a Joint Vision Statement, outlining the trajectory of bilateral defense cooperation between the two countries through 2020. Thanh and his Indian counterpart signed a memorandum of understanding on defense cooperation and oversaw the signing of a memorandum on coast guard cooperation in New Delhi.
India’s relationship with Vietnam has been growing deeper on the security front. During Dung’s visit last fall, New Delhi agreed to supply four patrol vessels to Vietnam to improve its maritime security capabilities. Incidentally, Thanh’s trip to India comes just over a year after Vietnam and China faced a major crisis after China moved an oil rig, flanked by People’s Liberation Army-Navy (PLAN) and coast guard ships, into Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone. (See “1 Year Later: Reflections on China’s Oil Rig ‘Sovereignty-Making’ in the South China Sea“.) Beyond India, Vietnam has been pursuing closer defense ties with other partners. For example, shortly after Dung’s visit to India, the United States agreed to partially lift its years-old arms embargo against Vietnam, specifically permitting the sale of U.S. defense equipment that would help Hanoi improve its maritime capabilities.
The South China Sea has, meanwhile, started to feature more prominently on the diplomatic agenda between India and Vietnam. Starting last year, New Delhi began featuring language on the South China Sea in joint statements with Vietnam. In September 2014, for example, ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to India, Indian President Pranab Mukherjee visited Vietnam and, with his counterpart, issued a statement emphasizing freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, and adherence to international law, specifically the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. In the months since, India has emphasized the role of international law and arbitration in limiting crises in the South China Sea. In the wake of last summer’s oil rig crisis, Vietnam lodged a legal complaint against China as well, demonstrating further convergence between Hanoi and New Delhi’s preferred modes of dealing with the sovereignty disputes in the South China Sea.
India’s growing relationship with Vietnam is part of a broader strategic eastward push into Southeast Asia. As Thanh met with Indian officials on Monday, four Indian warships set off for a deployment to the South China Sea. The Indian Navy’s Eastern Fleet deployed the INS Ranvir destroyer, the INS Shakti fleet tanker, INS Satpura stealth frigate, and INS Kamorta anti-submarine warfare corvette to the region to participate in a four-day maritime exercise with Singapore’s Navy.
The four Indian warships will also be making portcalls in Indonesia, Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Cambodia. In its report on the Indian navy’s deployment to the South China Sea, the Times of India noted that the initiative was a product of New Delhi’s “Act East” policy. According to one senior naval officer, the deployment will also “[show] the Indian flag in this region of strategic importance,” and improve “interoperability between navies.”
http://thediplomat.com/2015/05/india-and-vietnam-push-ahead-with-strategic-security-cooperation/
Vietnam’s defense minister is in India, with a maritime security-focused agenda.
Vietnamese Defense Minister Phùng Quang Thanh is in India for a three-day visit this week. On Monday, Thanh met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar. Thanh’s visit to India is intended to bolster strategic ties between India and Vietnam and comes at a time of rising tensions in the South China Sea–where Vietnam disputes the sovereignty of various islands and reefs with China. Additionally, the Indian government has framed its approach toward Vietnam in terms of its proactive “Act East” policy. Parallel to Thanh’s visit to New Delhi, Indian and Vietnamese senior diplomats held their seventh deputy ministerial-level political consultation in Hanoi.
According to a statement posted on the Indian Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) website, “Gen. Thanh briefed Prime Minister Modi about defence and security related developments in the India-Vietnam bilateral relationship. Prime Minister Modi expressed satisfaction at the progress made in bilateral defence and security cooperation since the visit of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.” Thanh’s visit carries forward the bilateral India-Vietnam agenda that was established during Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s October 2014 visit to India. Thanh “thanked Prime Minister Modi for India’s strong and growing defence and security relationship with Vietnam, and for India’s support and assistance in this regard,” and Modi, for his part, assured Thanh of “India’s full commitment to the strategic partnership between the two countries.”
Thanh’s visit resulted in a Joint Vision Statement, outlining the trajectory of bilateral defense cooperation between the two countries through 2020. Thanh and his Indian counterpart signed a memorandum of understanding on defense cooperation and oversaw the signing of a memorandum on coast guard cooperation in New Delhi.
India’s relationship with Vietnam has been growing deeper on the security front. During Dung’s visit last fall, New Delhi agreed to supply four patrol vessels to Vietnam to improve its maritime security capabilities. Incidentally, Thanh’s trip to India comes just over a year after Vietnam and China faced a major crisis after China moved an oil rig, flanked by People’s Liberation Army-Navy (PLAN) and coast guard ships, into Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone. (See “1 Year Later: Reflections on China’s Oil Rig ‘Sovereignty-Making’ in the South China Sea“.) Beyond India, Vietnam has been pursuing closer defense ties with other partners. For example, shortly after Dung’s visit to India, the United States agreed to partially lift its years-old arms embargo against Vietnam, specifically permitting the sale of U.S. defense equipment that would help Hanoi improve its maritime capabilities.
The South China Sea has, meanwhile, started to feature more prominently on the diplomatic agenda between India and Vietnam. Starting last year, New Delhi began featuring language on the South China Sea in joint statements with Vietnam. In September 2014, for example, ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to India, Indian President Pranab Mukherjee visited Vietnam and, with his counterpart, issued a statement emphasizing freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, and adherence to international law, specifically the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. In the months since, India has emphasized the role of international law and arbitration in limiting crises in the South China Sea. In the wake of last summer’s oil rig crisis, Vietnam lodged a legal complaint against China as well, demonstrating further convergence between Hanoi and New Delhi’s preferred modes of dealing with the sovereignty disputes in the South China Sea.
India’s growing relationship with Vietnam is part of a broader strategic eastward push into Southeast Asia. As Thanh met with Indian officials on Monday, four Indian warships set off for a deployment to the South China Sea. The Indian Navy’s Eastern Fleet deployed the INS Ranvir destroyer, the INS Shakti fleet tanker, INS Satpura stealth frigate, and INS Kamorta anti-submarine warfare corvette to the region to participate in a four-day maritime exercise with Singapore’s Navy.
The four Indian warships will also be making portcalls in Indonesia, Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Cambodia. In its report on the Indian navy’s deployment to the South China Sea, the Times of India noted that the initiative was a product of New Delhi’s “Act East” policy. According to one senior naval officer, the deployment will also “[show] the Indian flag in this region of strategic importance,” and improve “interoperability between navies.”
http://thediplomat.com/2015/05/india-and-vietnam-push-ahead-with-strategic-security-cooperation/
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India’s “Space Diplomacy”
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India plans to build a space tracking station in Vietnam. Taking advantage of the favorable conditions in the growth and strengthening of relations with Hanoi, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) plans to expand coverage of its network of space centers.
One station of this kind has already been established by India in Mauritius and two other — on the territory of Indonesia.
A network of space tracking stations will enable India to collect and process information received from Indian satellites.
"This station at Vietnam will enable us to be completely self-reliant for all our communication and remote sensing satellites," a senior scientist told The Times of India (TOI).
Information received from these space tracking stations is extremely important not only to India but also to other Asian countries. For example, the program of forecasting and early warning of disasters can save many people's lives, after getting timely information on the impending calamities.
ISRO's plans to develop a network of space tracking stations are fully supported by the government of Narendra Modi. Indian authorities intend to actively use such a kind of "cosmic diplomacy" to promote cooperation with other countries.
ISRO also promises to transform these space tracking stations into training centers for the processing of space-derived information. This project is of interests to all of the ASEAN countries — Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. And as for India, after implementation of such programs, it will become a recognized leader in Asia in the field of space research and technology.
http://in.sputniknews.com/south_asia/20150528/1014620711.html
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India plans to build a space tracking station in Vietnam. Taking advantage of the favorable conditions in the growth and strengthening of relations with Hanoi, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) plans to expand coverage of its network of space centers.
One station of this kind has already been established by India in Mauritius and two other — on the territory of Indonesia.
A network of space tracking stations will enable India to collect and process information received from Indian satellites.
"This station at Vietnam will enable us to be completely self-reliant for all our communication and remote sensing satellites," a senior scientist told The Times of India (TOI).
Information received from these space tracking stations is extremely important not only to India but also to other Asian countries. For example, the program of forecasting and early warning of disasters can save many people's lives, after getting timely information on the impending calamities.
ISRO's plans to develop a network of space tracking stations are fully supported by the government of Narendra Modi. Indian authorities intend to actively use such a kind of "cosmic diplomacy" to promote cooperation with other countries.
ISRO also promises to transform these space tracking stations into training centers for the processing of space-derived information. This project is of interests to all of the ASEAN countries — Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. And as for India, after implementation of such programs, it will become a recognized leader in Asia in the field of space research and technology.
http://in.sputniknews.com/south_asia/20150528/1014620711.html
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Hope this plan of Pharma Park will come trueVietnam helped us in May this year.
Vietnam helping out India overwhelmed by the pandemic
Vietnam has sent two shipments of aid with ventilators, oxygen generators, cylinders and protective masks worth US$ 1.5 million. The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha has led the way in raising funds andwww.asianews.it
India Hopes to Invest in US$ 500 Million Pharma Park in Vietnam
Major pharmaceutical corporations in India wish to invest in an industrial park producing pharmaceutical products in Vietnam, with an initial investment capital of US$ 500 million.
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Ambassador of Vietnam to India Pham Sanh Chau said the establishment of the pharma park would pave the way to create pharmaceutical centers, attracting major pharmaceutical corporations coming for long-term investment. This may lessen Vietnam’s dependence on traditional pharmaceutical sources and diversify the production chain.
The specialized industrial park will constitute a complete production chain from raw materials to finished pharmaceutical products. If established, it is estimated that the park will create jobs for about 50,000 direct laborers and 200,000 indirect laborers and achieve an export turnover of about US$ 5 billion per year.
Authorities of different cities and provinces in Vietnam such as Da Nang, Long An, Hai Duong, Bac Ninh, Thua Thien Hue and Thai Nguyen have directly communicated with Indian investors on their requirements in terms of total area, geographical locations, infrastructure and investment incentives.
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| Ambassador of Vietnam to India Pham Sanh Chau (second from left) discussing with Indian businesses in pharmaceutical trade promotion at an event on July 26 – 28. Photo: Vietnam Trade Office in India |
In the 1990s, India succeeded in developing specialized pharmaceutical industrial parks to attract leading pharmaceutical companies in India and the world.
The first pharmaceutical center of India was established in the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh in 1999. By now, the center has attracted over 200 major names such as Alembic Pharma, Bharat Biotech, Biological E, Laxai Avanti, Aurobindo Pharma, Laurus Labs and Sun Pharma to join the pharmaceutical and vaccine research and production center.
Developing specialized pharmaceutical production industrial park is one of the Indian businesses’ strengths, turning India into the world’s third-largest medicine production center. Today, Indian pharmaceutical companies are some of the most competitive companies in the world in producing generic drugs and vaccines.
According to the India Brand Equity Foundation, India provides more than 60% of vaccines across the globe and accounts for 20% of total global generic drug export. More than 40% of generic drugs in the United States. and 25% in the UK. are provided by India. Over 80% of antiviral drugs used across the globe to fight against HIV-AIDS are produced by Indian pharmaceutical companies.
The pharmaceutical industry in India was estimated to value US$ 43 billion in 2019 and may reach US$ 55 billion in 2022. The industry currently consists of 3,000 companies and 10,500 production units, with a significant number of factories meeting U.S. Food and Drug Administration standards.
India Hopes to Invest in US$ 500 Million Pharma Park in Vietnam
Major pharmaceutical corporations in India wish to invest in an industrial park producing pharmaceutical products in Vietnam, with an initial investment capital of US$ 500 million.
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Not sure this news was posted yet. I just wanna say thanks to Indian friend to help Vietnam boosting our defense capacity 
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What’s in the New India-Vietnam Patrol Vessel Project Launch?
Both sides broke ground on the first specific project to operationalize their defense partnership in this realm.
By Prashanth Parameswaran
August 19, 2019
Credit: Vietnam People’s Army NewspaperADVERTISEMENT
Last week, India and Vietnam held a launching ceremony for a patrol vessel project between them. The development spotlighted efforts by the two sides to break ground on what is effectively the first specific project to operationalize their defense partnership in this realm following previous inroads made in recent years.
As I have observed in these pages previously, Vietnam and India have been looking to advance their existing defense relationship as part of their wider ties, which were elevated to a comprehensive strategic partnership in 2016. Defense ties have grown in recent years to include not just the traditional components in this realm of ties like exchanges and port calls but also coast guard collaboration, the training of personnel, capacity-building funding and equipment, and even discussions about coproduction and technology transfer with a new credit line offered by India to help develop Hanoi’s military capabilities.
Last week, the defense aspect of the relationship was in the headlines with the launch of a new project around patrol vessels. The two sides launched a project where India would help build vessels for Vietnam as part of New Delhi’s ongoing efforts to assist the development of Hanoi’s military capabilities.
A launching ceremony was held on August 14 for the initiative where India’s Larsen & Toubro shipyard near Chennai in India’s state of Tamil Nadu launched a project to build 12 high-speed vessels for the Vietnam Border Guard Force, funded by a wider Indian government’s credit package. The launching ceremony was attended by delegations on both sides led by KJ Kumar, flag commanding officer of the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry Naval Area, and Hoang Dan Nhieu, who is the deputy chief of the Vietnam Border Guard Command.
While the project itself has long been in the works and is modest in its scope, in is nonetheless significant because it represents the first specific project to operationalize this aspect of the defense partnership between the two countries. Though incremental progress has continued to be made in the defense aspect of the relationship in recent years including the Indian government’s credit package, some projects have taken much longer than intended to actually get off the ground.
Per the official statement on the interaction by Vietnam’s defense ministry, both sides acknowledged the importance of the development at the ceremony, with Nhieu in particular emphasizing that the interaction, which he characterized as the first specific project in the defense partnership between the two countries, signified the collaboration by both sides to strengthen ties in areas such as shipbuilding.
To be sure, despite the general significance of the project, it is still early days and few specifics have been disclosed about how it is set to proceed, including updated delivery timelines. As of now, per the official statement, five of the high-speed patrol ships will be built at Kattupalli Shipyard of Larsen & Toubro, while the rest will be built at Hong Ha Shipyard of Vietnam with support from the Indian firm. The ships are intended to be used to help countries supervise and safeguard their sovereignty at sea, including detecting illegal activities and performing search and rescue missions.
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What’s in the New India-Vietnam Patrol Vessel Project Launch?
Both sides broke ground on the first specific project to operationalize their defense partnership in this realm.
By Prashanth Parameswaran
August 19, 2019
Credit: Vietnam People’s Army NewspaperADVERTISEMENT
Last week, India and Vietnam held a launching ceremony for a patrol vessel project between them. The development spotlighted efforts by the two sides to break ground on what is effectively the first specific project to operationalize their defense partnership in this realm following previous inroads made in recent years.
As I have observed in these pages previously, Vietnam and India have been looking to advance their existing defense relationship as part of their wider ties, which were elevated to a comprehensive strategic partnership in 2016. Defense ties have grown in recent years to include not just the traditional components in this realm of ties like exchanges and port calls but also coast guard collaboration, the training of personnel, capacity-building funding and equipment, and even discussions about coproduction and technology transfer with a new credit line offered by India to help develop Hanoi’s military capabilities.
Last week, the defense aspect of the relationship was in the headlines with the launch of a new project around patrol vessels. The two sides launched a project where India would help build vessels for Vietnam as part of New Delhi’s ongoing efforts to assist the development of Hanoi’s military capabilities.
A launching ceremony was held on August 14 for the initiative where India’s Larsen & Toubro shipyard near Chennai in India’s state of Tamil Nadu launched a project to build 12 high-speed vessels for the Vietnam Border Guard Force, funded by a wider Indian government’s credit package. The launching ceremony was attended by delegations on both sides led by KJ Kumar, flag commanding officer of the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry Naval Area, and Hoang Dan Nhieu, who is the deputy chief of the Vietnam Border Guard Command.
While the project itself has long been in the works and is modest in its scope, in is nonetheless significant because it represents the first specific project to operationalize this aspect of the defense partnership between the two countries. Though incremental progress has continued to be made in the defense aspect of the relationship in recent years including the Indian government’s credit package, some projects have taken much longer than intended to actually get off the ground.
Per the official statement on the interaction by Vietnam’s defense ministry, both sides acknowledged the importance of the development at the ceremony, with Nhieu in particular emphasizing that the interaction, which he characterized as the first specific project in the defense partnership between the two countries, signified the collaboration by both sides to strengthen ties in areas such as shipbuilding.
To be sure, despite the general significance of the project, it is still early days and few specifics have been disclosed about how it is set to proceed, including updated delivery timelines. As of now, per the official statement, five of the high-speed patrol ships will be built at Kattupalli Shipyard of Larsen & Toubro, while the rest will be built at Hong Ha Shipyard of Vietnam with support from the Indian firm. The ships are intended to be used to help countries supervise and safeguard their sovereignty at sea, including detecting illegal activities and performing search and rescue missions.
What’s in the New India-Vietnam Patrol Vessel Project Launch?
Both sides broke ground on the first specific project to operationalize their defense partnership in this realm.
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India gifts indigenously-built in-service Missile Corvette INS Kirpan to Vietnam to enhance its Naval capabilities
