Antony lauds military agreement with US
By ANIWednesday, July 22, 2009
NEW DELHI - Union Defence Minister A K Antony on Wednesday said that agreement with the US on defence matters was the result of three years of tough bargaining from both sides.
Antony said this after attending an army hospital function in national capital on Wednesday.
“This agreement is after three years of hard bargaining from both sides. And now government finally took a decision to go ahead,” Antony said.
The minister further said that government did not have any reservations about the pact.
Earlier on July 20, the United States and India had agreed on a defence pact that takes a major step towards allowing the sale of sophisticated US arms to India, as it modernises its military.
Known as an ‘end-use monitoring’ agreement and required by US law for such weapons sales, the pact would let Washington check that India was using any arms for the purposes intended and was preventing the technology from leaking to others. (ANI)
