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Move in keeping with imaginative and prescient that aspires to assure safety for all maritime companions, says MEA
India will hand over INS Sindhuvir, a Kilo class submarine to the Myanmar Navy, the Ministry of External Affairs introduced on Thursday. Addressing the weekly press interplay, official spokesperson of MEA Anurag Srivastava stated this would be the first submarine of the Southeast Asian nation and the transfer is in keeping with the general Indian imaginative and prescient that aspires to assure safety for all maritime companions.
“In this context, India will be delivering a Kilo class submarine INS Sindhuvir to the Myanmar Navy. We understand that this will be the first submarine of the Myanmar Navy. This is in accordance with our vision of SAGAR — Security and Growth for All in the Region, and also in line with our commitment to build capacities and self-reliance in all our neighbouring countries,” stated Mr. Srivastava to a query.
The announcement got here days after Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla and Chief of the Army Staff General Manoj Mukund Naravane visited Myanmar and held talks with State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and Commander in Chief of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. The submarine, bought from the Soviet Union within the Nineteen Eighties, has undergone modernisation on the Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL) in Vizag.
It belongs to a class of diesel-electric attack submarines constructed by the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War years.
The submarine would be the first in a fleet that Myanmar needs to construct and is probably going to be used initially for coaching and orientation functions for its Navy personnel. Last 12 months, India provided Myanmar ‘Shyena’ superior mild torpedoes as a part of a defence deal. The October 4-5 go to of Mr. Shringla and General Naravane was additionally noteworthy as Myanmar and Bangladesh have just lately engaged in a confrontation over heightened navy pressure close to the border at Chittagong concerning the Rohingya difficulty.
India’s navy outreach to Myanmar is essential because it comes within the backdrop of the continued navy pressure alongside the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh between India and China, a number one industrial and enterprise companion of the Southeast Asian state.
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