Indian Army chief to visit Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan
November 15th, 2011 - 9:51 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Nov 15 (IANS) Looking to further India’s military relations, Army chief General Vijay Kumar Singh will go on a six-day visit to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan beginning Wednesday, an army officer said Tuesday.
This will be the first-ever visit by an Indian Army chief to Uzbekistan since its independence in 1991 and to Kazakhstan in 16 years, an officer at the army headquarters here said.
Singh will be in Tashkent from Nov 16 to 19 when he will meet up with his Uzbek counterpart and other top military and government leaders.
From there, he will fly to Astana to hold similar bilateral talks with the Kazakh military and government top brass.
The visit has been envisaged as an Indian effort to have greater engagement with the Central Asian nations, considered as New Delhi’s extended neighbourhood.
The last Indian Army chief to visit Kazakhstan was General Shankar Roy Choudhury in the mid-1990s.
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