India and Russia reviewed their defence ties especially defence production here during the two-day third meeting of the Working Group on Military Co-operation ending Wednesday. It is part of the Indian-Russian Intergovernmental Commission on Military and Military Technical Co-operation.
The discussions focused on extending the ongoing defence engagements between the two sides and mulled new initiatives under the ambit of the existing bilateral defence corporation mechanism, defence ministry officials said.
The Working Group meeting is a forum established to progress defence cooperation between both countries through regular talks at the strategic and operational levels between Headquarters, Integrated Defence Staff, and the Main Directorate of International Military Cooperation of the Ministry of Defence, Russian Federation.
The meeting was co-chaired by Lt. Gen Johnson P Mathew, Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee (CISC), HQ - IDS, and Lt. Gen Dylevsky Igor Nikolaevich, Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
The meeting was conducted in a friendly warm and cordial atmosphere.