UK Foreign Secy for stronger defence, security ties with India

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 23

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is forging stronger UK security and defence links with India on her visit to the country, as she on Saturday visited the ship HMS Queen Elizabeth docked off the Mumbai coast, said a UK High Commission news release.

The arrival of the Carrier Strike Group in India represents UK’s Indo-Pacific tilt in action. This is a true symbol of Global Britain, working closely with like-minded partners like India. India, UK democracies, can make world safer. Liz Truss, Foreign Secy, UK

“The arrival of the Carrier Strike Group in India this weekend represents the UK’s Indo-Pacific tilt in action. This is a true symbol of Global Britain, working closely with like-minded partners like India,” she observed.

During her visit, the Foreign Secretary discussed ramping up defence and security ties and boosting strategic cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region. “It will take forward joint work agreed by the two Prime Ministers in the 2030 roadmap on maritime security, cyber security and counter terrorism signed earlier this year,” she said after meeting External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday.

“The British ship which she is inspecting is the spearhead of the Carrier Strike Group (CSG), a symbol of the UK’s world-leading defence capability, whose visit to Mumbai is a clear sign of our growing defence and maritime cooperation with India. While in India the CSG is taking part in the most demanding exercise ever undertaken between the UK and India, involving all three military services,” said the release.

Truss also discussed developing innovative security and defence tech to tackle common threats and will talk through strengthening defence-related trade between the two countries, said the release.