Amid Chinese aggressive policies in South China Sea, India and Australia have decided to expand their defence and security partnership.
Following wide-ranging dialogue between PM Modi and his Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull who is on his maiden trip to India as the PM, the two sides on Monday signed key counter-terror agreement to fight common challenges.
They also held talks on Canberra supplying uranium to Indian nuclear power plants. It’s hoped that Canberra would start the supply beginning this year.
The two sides signed five other pacts, including one on space cooperation. PM Modi expressed that the waters of the Indian Ocean remind him of both the countries linked histories.
He further mentioned that they are also a pointer to the countries connected destinies and that the values and principles of democracy and rule of law are common to both the nations.
By Baishakhi Dutta
