India, Australia establish framework for security cooperation

November 18, 2014 08:27

India and Australia on Tuesday established a framework for bilateral security cooperation as they stepped up their defence collaboration for advancing regional peace and combating terrorism among other challenges.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Tony Abbott held talks and agreed to establish a Framework for Security Cooperation to reflect the deepening and expanding security and defence engagement between the two countries.

They established the framework to intensify cooperation and consultation between Australia and India in areas of mutual interest.

"I greatly welcome the New Framework for Security Cooperation. Security and defence are important and growing areas of the new India-Australia partnership -- for advancing regional peace and stability, and combating terrorism and trans-national crimes," Modi said in the statement to the media at a joint press conference with Abbott.

Modi, while addressing the Parliament later, also called for collaboration in the field of maritime security.

"We should collaborate more on maintaining maritime security. We should work together on the seas and collaborate in international forums. And, we should work for a universal respect for international law and global norms," he said reiterating his call for collaboration on maritime security made at the East Asia and ASEAN summits in Myanmar last week.

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