UAE, India, submarine and armament cooperationnote

Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan is said to have decided to take India as a main partner in his country’s strategic naval projects. This comes as he paid on 24/1/17 a three-day visit to New Delhi to attend the celebrations of the India’s Republic Day at the invitation of PM Narendra Modi. The following 456-word report sheds more light on his naval talks there and tells what about the Scorpene submarine which India builds under a technology transfer agreement with France. [Partly reproduced in TR Weekly Issue No 24/06 – Feb. 10, 2017]