(Source: Australian Government) Today in Canberra I conducted a formal bilateral Defence Ministers' Dialogue with India's Minister of Defence, Mr A. K. Antony. Minister Antony arrived in Australia on Tuesday 4 June as part of the first ever official visit to Australia by an Indian Defence Minister. Australia and India have a long history of defence-to-defence and military-to-military cooperation, stretching back to the Gallipoli campaign and encompassing World War II and the Korean War. Australia's contemporary bilateral defence-to-defence and military-to-military cooperation with India occurs under the framework of the Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation, which was issued by the Prime...
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