US and India sign BECA

During the visit of US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo to India, the two countries signed the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement for Geo-spatial Cooperation, BECA following the signing of LEMOA in 2016 and COMCASA in 2018. Mr Rajnath Singh also highlighted some major steps recently taken which include “Positioning a USN LO at IFC-IOR and Indian LO at NAVCENT, Bahrain; greater interaction and coordination with CENTCOM and AFRICOM; setting up of the COMSEC account and increasing the scope and complexities of our exercises. Now LO’s at each other’s establishments could be leveraged to enhance our information sharing architecture. To sum it up, our military to military cooperation is progressing well”!