Published: 11 Feb 2011 05:35
BANGALORE, India - Britain wants to build a strategic relationship with India comparable to the one it shares with the United States, according to Peter Luff, the defense equipment and technology minister.
Luff has been in India this week promoting his country's defense exports effort in the region, but the visit also had a wider significance.
London and Delhi are stepping up their alliance, and one of the early signs of that is in the defense field, where the two governments are preparing to sign a military science and technology cooperation pact at the end of next month.
The deal involving Britain's Defence Science & Technology Laboratory and their Indian counterpart, the Defence Research & Development Organisation, is seen by Luff as a key part of the growing defense alliance between the two countries....
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