New Delhi: India and Tanzania have established close coordination guided by five-year roadmaps, as the fourth edition of the Joint Defence Cooperation Committee (JDCC) meeting was held between the two countries in Zanzibar.
Both countries reviewed ongoing defence cooperation and discussed a broad range of areas for further collaboration, including military training, service-to-service cooperation, maritime security, and defence industry partnership.
The two sides also explored new avenues such as counter-terrorism, peacekeeping training, and capacity building in niche areas, including Electronic Warfare (EW), Cyber, and Artificial Intelligence (AI), with a view to further strengthening bilateral defence ties.
Cooperation in military medicine was identified as a potential new area of engagement. In addition, both sides agreed to initiate cooperation between their Air Forces, complementing the existing cooperation between the two Navies and Armies.
The Indian delegation was led by Joint Secretary (Defence Cooperation) Amitabh Prasad and comprised senior officials from the Department of Defence and the Indian Defence Forces.
The Tanzanian delegation was led by Ibrahim Mhona, Chief of Operations and Training, TPDF. The High Commissioner of India to Tanzania, Bishwadip Dey, also attended the meeting.
India and Tanzania share a close, warm, and strategic partnership. Defence cooperation between the two countries is guided by five-year roadmaps.DD