India, Vietnam sign Logistic support pact.

June 10, 2022

India and Vietnam signed a vision document to further broad-base the “scope and scale” of their defence ties by 2030.
The two nations also firmed up a logistics support pact to allow militaries of the two sides to use each other’s bases for repair and replenishment of supplies.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on mutual logistics support is the first such major agreement that Vietnam has signed with any country.
The two defence ministers signed the ‘Joint Vision Statement on India-Vietnam Defence Partnership towards 2030’ that provides for expansion of defence and military ties in diverse areas.
India has oil exploration projects in the Vietnamese waters in the South China Sea.
India and Vietnam are boosting their maritime security cooperation in the last few years to protect common interests.
Ties between the two countries were elevated to the level of ‘strategic partnership’ during the visit of Vietnam’s then Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung to India in July 2007.