Sri Lanka s State Minister of Defence Premitha Bandara Tennakoon and India s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay on Wednesday visited Indian Navy ships amid the ongoing maritime bilateral exercise SLINEX 2023.
SLINEX-2023 exercise is aimed at improving mutual understanding, enhancing interoperability, and exchanging best practices/procedures in multi-faceted maritime operations between both Navies.
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India Hands Over Training Aids To Lankan Navy, Calls It Essential For Bilateral Engagement
In Dec 2019, Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh had committed to provide a number of training items to the Sri Lankan Navy for capacity building
In an effort to boost the overall bilateral engagement, India s envoy in Sri Lanka handed over training aids worth 22 million LKR (about ₹81,00,000) to the Lankan Navy for capacity building. During his visit to the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka, High Commissioner Gopal Baglay formally handed over the training aids to the Commander Eastern Naval Area of the Sri Lanka Navy at a ceremony held on March 14, 2021. The aid was handed over to the Lankan Navy at the prestigious Naval and Maritime Academy (NMA) Trincomalee.
India s envoy in Sri Lanka has underlined the importance of close cooperation between the navies of the two countries as an essential part of the overall bilateral engagement, as he handed over training aids worth 22 million LKR (about Rs 81,00,000) to the island nation s Navy for capacity building. High Commissioner Gopal Baglay, during a visit to the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka, formally handed over the training aids to the Commander Eastern Naval Area of the Sri Lanka Navy at a ceremony held on Sunday at the prestigious Naval and Maritime Academy (NMA) Trincomalee. Pursuing the commitment of the Indian Navy in assisting the regional navies in capacity building, during his visit in December 2019, Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh had committed to providing a number of training items to the Sri Lankan Navy, the Indian High Commission in Colombo said in a statement.