NEW DELHI: The US Senate has passed a legislative provision that brings India on par with Washington’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) allies and countries such as Israel and South Korea for increasing defence cooperation. The National Defense Authorization Act or NDAA for fiscal 2020, that contained the proposal was passed by the US Senate last week, a Press Trust of India report said on Tuesday. The US recognized India as a “major defence partner" in 2016. The ambassador recalled that till a few years ago, India was on the lowest rung of defence cooperation with the US and was treated on par with its adversaries. In the last years of the Obama administration, we were given the status of major defence partner of the US which is on par with its closest allies, Nato.

Source: Mint July 02, 2019 16:52 UTC