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Vostok Exercise 2022.

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 ~Preet. This publisher or the blogger has no rights to this image; this image is taken from  630_360_1662106815-274.jpg India recently participated in the international strategic and command exercise Vostok - 2022 in Russia, China, and other countries. It will include troops from numerous former Soviet republics and China, India, Laos, Mongolia, Nicaragua, and Syria. The Indian Army was represented by men from the 7/8 Gorkha Rifles. Its goal is to foster contact and cooperation among the various military contingents and observers that will be there. The Vostok 2022 exercise will take place at seven shooting ranges in Russia's the Far East and the Sea of Japan, involving nearly 50,000 personnel and 5,000 weapon units, including 140 aircraft and 60 vessels. Through talks and tactical exercises, the Indian Army contingent will look forward to discussing practical elements and putting verified drills, procedures, and practice integration of new technologies into effect. There are many

The Global Security Initiative by China.

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 ~Preet Chinese President Xi Jinping recently proposed a new Global Security Initiative (GSI). The GSI seeks to oppose the United States' Indo-Pacific strategy and the Quad (India, US, Australia, Japan grouping). China, on the other hand, did not give much clarity or explanation regarding the planned global security programme. With escalating challenges from unilateralism, hegemony, and power politics, as well as growing deficiencies in peace, security, trust, and governance, humanity is confronted with more intractable issues and security concerns.  As a result, China maintained that the Global Security Initiative is intended to safeguard the notion of "indivisible security." According to the notion of "indivisible security," no country may increase its own security at the expense of others. GSI advocates for "shared, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable" security, as well as the development of an Asian security paradigm based on mutual respect

IMCG meeting.

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 ~Preet The Foreign Secretary of India recently conducted the inaugural meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Coordination Group (IMCG) at the Secretary level.  The IMCG was established as a high-level vehicle to mainstream India's 'Neighbourhood First' policy objective, which intended to improve ties with the country's neighbours. Inter-ministerial Joint Task Forces (JTFs) constituted by joint secretaries in the Ministry of External Affairs provide support to IMCG. The IMCG offered a comprehensive direction with a whole-of-government strategy to encourage improved connectivity, stronger interconnections, and more people-to-people connections with neighbours. The meeting focused on the construction of border infrastructure to facilitate greater trade with neighbours such as Nepal, the special needs of countries such as Bhutan and the Maldives in terms of supply of essential commodities, the opening of rail connectivity with Bangladesh, humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan
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Jaishankar meets Le Drain: India and France discuss  bilateral motions and global issues. ~Preet. In these difficult times, when the globe seems to be out of order, due to the terrifying issues ranging from Russia-Ukraine War to Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan, the two global powers’ representatives met to put forward their stance on these motions and discuss the plausible solutions of the same. Other than that there were discussions over various bilateral issues.  On February 22nd 2022, the External Affairs Minister of India, S. Jaishankar met with his French counterpart. The two leaders spoke about a variety of regional and global problems, including the India-EU relationship, the Afghanistan situation, the Indo-Pacific Strategy, the South China Sea Dispute, the Iran nuclear agreement, and the Ukraine crisis.  The two Ministers decided to launch the Indo-French proposal for an Indo-Pacific Parks Partnership together. This cooperation intends to strengthen capacity in the Indo-Paci