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IMBAX – 2017 happened at Umroi, Meghalaya, from November 20 to 25 and was the main reciprocal military activity among India and Myanmar Bilateral Army Exercise. This is the first time India and Myanmar have cooperated on a tactical activity zeroed in on UN peacekeeping tasks. The Myanmar designation will profit from this reciprocal preparation program as it plans to partake in UNPKO tasks under the UN banner. There will be 15 Myanmar Army offers and 16 Indian Army offers partaking in the India-Myanmar Bilateral Army Exercise, which will happen in more than six days. Dusk Newton, Media Relations Officer (Defense), Guwahati/Shillong, noticed that the Indian Army has a pleased history of administration in UNPKO. During the IMBAX 2017, the emphasis of preparing the Myanmar Army appointment will be on the strategies and systems required by UNPKO’s part nations.
India-Myanmar Bilateral Army Exercise:
The India-Myanmar Bilateral Army Exercise, IMBEX 2018-19, started at Chandimandir Military Station, home to the Western Command headquarters. The IMBEX 2018-19 is part of the second exercise edition. IMBEX 2018-19 has two objectives: As a way to make sure that the Myanmar delegation is ready to join UN peacekeeping operations under the UN. On November 20, 2017, the Exercise code-named India-Myanmar Bilateral Army Exercise (IMBAX) began at the Joint Warfare Centre in Umroi, near Shillong in Meghalaya. India and Myanmar will be holding a weeklong Army warfare exercise. It is to build and promote closer relations with the armies of their neighbours. As part of this six-day exercise, the Myanmar Army will also learn how to carry out different UN Peacekeeping duties and missions.
Relationship Between Indian and Myanmar Army
The relationship between the Indian and Myanmar Army has roots in common historical, cultural, and religious ties—Myanmar’s country of pilgrimage in India, the land of Lord Buddha. Relations between India and Myanmar have stood the test.They are geographically nearby and have helped to create and maintain amicable ties. It has also enabled people-to-people communication.
India and Myanmar have an extended oceanic limit in the Bay of Bengal. Myanmar is home to a significant Indian people group (assessed at 2.5 million) (assessed at 2.5 million). In 1951, India and Myanmar marked a Treaty of Friendship. In 1987, Prime Minister Rajiv Singh Gandhi visited India. It was the start of a superior kinship between India and Myanmar.
Numerous agreements have been signed between India and Myanmar to enhance bilateral Cooperation. There have also been established institutional mechanisms to facilitate regular dialogue on various issues of bilateral importance. In 2002, the Indian Consulate in Mandalay was reopened, and the Consulate of Myanmar in Kolkata was established.
India immediately responded to the disaster caused by cyclone “Nargis” in Myanmar in May 2008. It offered assistance and materials as well as relief materials.
India has given the US $10 million dollars to the relief and restoration operations in regions devastated by the March 2011 catastrophic earthquake in Shan State. US$ 250,000 was donated as a financial grant by the Government Of Myanmar, while US$ 750,000 was utilised to repair one Tarlay Township higher education and six elementary schools that were most seriously devastated by the earthquake.
Collaboration Between the Armed Forces of India and Myanmar
Monday saw India and Myanmar sign a deal on bilateral India-Myanmar Defence cooperation. This agreement will boost military-to-military contacts in training, maritime security, cooperative surveillance, and other areas. The Commander-in-Chief and Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar’s Defence Services, signed the agreement.
In recent years, the connection between India and Myanmar has been enhanced by the Tatmadaw military. Min Aung Hlaing met with top Indian commanders, including Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa and the Chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rohat.
“India and Myanmar inked a Memorandum of Understanding for defence cooperation following the meetings,” the Indian Ministry of Defence declared. India’s Act East Policy to emphasise ties with East Asian neighbours includes Myanmar as a fundamental component.
The statement claimed that India had been progressively developing defence cooperation with Myanmar over the years. ” India and Myanmar have boosted their military cooperation along their shared border in India’s northeastern region. They also organised border security operations against extremists in the region previously.”
India is now a major supplier of defence equipment to Myanmar and its border cooperation. India delivered the first batch of torpedoes it had built for the Myanmar navy earlier this summer. The value of the contract was 37.9 million dollars.
Gatherings were held to work on military co-activity, inspect joint activities and prepare proposals to Myanmar’s equipped administrations, and furthermore to help security in the oceans by planning reconnaissance, limiting building endeavours, and contamination reaction procedures.
Conclusion:
It is a sign of the Myanmar Army’s trust in the Indian Army that they are willing to do joint training. It will allow the Tatmadaw exposure to the UN principles and guidelines in convict and post-convict operations. The Myanmar Army may apply these lessons within its borders.
Major Western nations, notably the United States and Britain, have declared measures to curtail military operations and help the Tatmadaw in reaction to the horrific campaign against the Rohingya minority. On the other hand, India is using its defence ties with Myanmar to prepare the Myanmar Army for reengagement with the international community. It will be a long-term positive effect on the conduct of the armed forces within Myanmar.
