“By participating in MILAN countries can form an alliance and seek each other’s help and cooperation to deal with threats that they facing from some of the bigger nations,” he addedĪdmiral Paparao on Saturday visited USS Fitzgerald, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the US Navy, to meet the sailors on board.

The admiral said, “Alliances have responsibilities to one another within the alliance and in QUAD nations we see the recognition of shared values and shared interest and commitments between countries to help each other.”Ĭalling Vietnam’s participation in MILAN inspiring, Admiral Paparao said it is “unfortunate” that Vietnam often has been the victim of aggression on its maritime domain in terms of bigger nations trying to make excessive claims on its exclusive economic zones. He also said that the United States and India are actively sharing defence technologies such MH60 Romeo choppers. The QUAD is a shining example when we talk about great maritime powers such as Japan, India, Australia and the United States.”Īdmiral Paparao, who was in Visakhapatnam to participate in the eleventh edition of MILAN being hosted by Eastern Naval Command, said that the future is bright with regard to the building of the interoperability between Indian and American forces as they move forward with greater and greater sharing of network and technologies. Speaking to media persons on the sidelines of the MILAN multinational exercise in Visakhapatnam, he said, “This MILAN conference has also emphasised on QUAD discussions between the United States, India Japan and Australia. Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), February 27 (ANI): Admiral Samuel J Paparao, Commander of US Pacific Fleet, on Sunday emphasized the need for all nations to respect maritime democracy, international rules-based order and concepts of the sovereignty of freedom of seas because these all are in the interest of all the nations.

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