Aero India 2023: Highlights of Rajnath Singh's address at 'SPEED' Defence Ministers' Conclave

As part of the ongoing "Aero India" event, India"s biennial aerospace exhibition, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh hosted a Defence Ministers" Conclave, "SPEED".

NewsBharati 14-Feb-2023 14:58:52 PM

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Bangalore, Feb 14: Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said that India sees all nations as equal partners and the country does not believe in imposing external solutions to country's internal problems. As part of the ongoing 'Aero India' event, India's biennial aerospace exhibition, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh hosted a Defence Ministers' Conclave, 'SPEED', at Taj Westend in Bengaluru Tuesday (Feb 14) morning.

Speaking on occasion, Singh said, "India has always stood for a rules-based international order, in which the primordial instinct of the "might being right" is replaced by the civilisational concept of fairness, cooperation, respect and equality amongst all sovereign nations." Highlighting the need for cooperation between nations, Rajnath Singh said, "We wish to create symbiotic relationships where we can learn from each other." He also pointed out terrorism illegal arms trade and drug smuggling as a security threat to the world.

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Addressed the Defence Ministers’ Conclave on the sidelines of Aero India 2023 in Bengaluru. Exhorted the participants for greater cooperation to deal with fast-paced changes in an increasingly-complex global security scenario. https://t.co/7UmuJHd1YT pic.twitter.com/wuFRBnJb20
— Rajnath Singh (@rajnathsingh) February 14, 2023

"Today collective security has become sine-qua non for our development and prosperity. Terrorism, illegal arms trade and drug smuggling pose a significant security threat to the whole world Singh. To counter security threats, there is a need to devise new strategies for our current reality. India does not believe in dealing with such security issues in the old paternalistic or neo-colonial paradigms. We consider all nations as equal partners, Rajnath Singh said at the Aero India conclave," he added.

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The conclave witnessed the participation of his counterparts from friendly foreign nations. The Aero India event was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (Feb 13). Security Advisor to Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Ahmed Siddique, Nepal Defence Minister Hari Prasad Uprety, Sri Lanka State State Minister of Defence Premitha Bandara Tennakoon and other country defence dignitaries also addressed the event. Singh also said that the commingling and contest of various thoughts in India had made us a global ideation centre.