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The 3rd Edition of Vietnam India Bilateral Army Exercise “Ex VINBAX 2022” is scheduled to be conducted in August 2022.
Key Takeaways
- The Bilateral Army Exercise “Ex VINBAX 2022” is scheduled to be conducted at Chandimandir in Haryana from 01 to 20 August 2022.
- The theme of Ex VINBAX – 2022 is “the employment and deployment of an engineering company and a medical team as part of the United Nations Contingent for Peace Keeping Operations”.
- It is the third edition of the Vietnam-India Bilateral Field training Army Exercise.
- The conduct of Ex VINBAX – 2022 as a field training exercise with enhanced scope from previous editions of bilateral exercises will strengthen mutual confidence, and interoperability and enable sharing of best practices between the Indian Army and Vietnam People’s Army.
Where is Vietnam?
- It is a country in Southeast Asia.
- Capital – Hanoi
- Land borders:
- North – China
- West – Laos and Cambodia
- Maritime Borders:
- South West-Gulf of Thailand
- East – Spoth China Sea
India – Vietnam Defence Relations
- India and Vietnam, with historical roots in the common struggle for liberation from colonial rule and the national struggle for independence, share traditionally close and cordial bilateral relations.
- Defence relations:
- The 3rd Edition of Vietnam India Bilateral Army Exercise “Ex VINBAX 2022” is scheduled to be conducted in 2022.
- It also took part in the PASSEX Exercise with the People’s Navy of Vietnam.
- South-East Asian allies
- While Vietnam wants to modernise its armed forces, India wants to ensure that its South-East Asian allies have sufficient defence capability to keep the crucial region peaceful.
- Defence equipment
- India’s Akash surface-to-air missiles, Dhruv advanced light helicopters, and Brahmos missiles have attracted Vietnam’s interest.
- Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
- The relations between the two countries were elevated to the level of “strategic partnership” in 2007.
- The relations were further upgraded to “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership” in 2016, as Vietnam is an essential partner in India’s “Act East” Policy and Indo-Pacific vision.
- Both countries underlined the robust defence cooperation between India and Vietnam, which is a crucial pillar of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (2016).
- Areas of Defence Engagement Recent Times
- Defence Policy Dialogues, military to military exchanges, high-level visits, capacity building and training programs, cooperation in UN Peacekeeping, ship visits and bilateral exercises
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