CDS General Bipin Rawat highlights importance of multilateral approach to security

Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat on Friday participated in Global Security Summit. While highlighting importance of Indo-Pacific region, Gen Bipin Rawat said over 120 warships of extra-regional forces have been deployed in Indian Ocean Region in support of various missions. He also said that most of countries in region are seeking to reap ecomic dividends through improved connectivity and harnessing blue ecomy for which infrastructure is a pre-requisite. 

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Chief of Defence Staff Gen Rawat said, "Residents' powers and extra-regional power have shown a renewed interest in investing in infrastructure development in se countries to maintain and increase geopolitical influence." 

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Gen Bipin Rawat dresses Global Security Summit

Speaking on me of "Contesting Indo Pacific for Global Domination", CDS Gen Rawat said that over 120 warships have been deployed in Indo-Pacific region to support various missions. He also said that in recent years China's ecomy and military rise coupled with competition to increase influence in region has attracted a great deal of interest. 

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Gen Bipin Rawat said, "In military field, techlogy must be a means of deterrence t a source of destruction. Our approach to security hence needs to shift from unilateral to multilateral mode which mandates increasing training engments with partner nations in order to fortify future."

Claiming that governance and security are under constant threat of being undetermined by n-state actors and naval competitions among states, Chief of Defence Staff said that in order to protect peace, prosperity and sovereignty it is important for us to keep a sea line of communication secure at all times with a stronghold on security dimension of this region.

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