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In a bid to give fillip to military-to-military cooperation, India and the United States begin a week-long top level army and naval interactions from Monday aimed at kickstarting joint exercises and building mechanism to exchange information on terrorist organisations.
A top level US army team is already in New Delhi and would hold extensive parleys with the Indian army officials led by Vice Chief of Army staff Lt Gen N C Vij, official sources said.
Besides Vij, the Indian side at the talks would include Director General of Military Operations Lt Gen J S Chahal and Director General Military Intelligence Lt Gen O S Lochab.
The US delegation, which includes top army and marine officers from the Pacific Command, will hold discussions centred on building up a mechanism on exchange of information on terrorists organisation and threats.
Simultaneously, a US naval delegation led by Vice admiral V J Metzger, Commander of the US's Seventh Fleet, would hold talks in Chennai from Tuesday with top brass from Indian Navy's Eastern and Southern Commands.
The visit of the US delegations comes close on the heels of announcement made by US Ambassador Robert Blackwill recently that a proposal for arms sale to India had been sent for clearance to the US Congress.
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