In what is seen as a significant boost to their strategic partnership, India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Australian counterpart, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles, on Thursday, October 9, announced a series of new measures to deepen defence and security cooperation between India and Australia.

Meeting in Canberra for the inaugural Australia–India Defence Ministers’ Dialogue, the two leaders reviewed the progress made under the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, which marks its fifth anniversary this year and charted a new roadmap for cooperation across the Indo-Pacific.

“The Dialogue reflected unprecedented progress in the bilateral defence partnership,” a joint statement by both the Defence Ministers said, adding that both of them had advanced “the

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