Indian naval ships to visit China

BEIJING, AUG. 6. As part of enhanced Indo-Sino military cooperation, a high-level Chinese military delegation will visit India this month and two Indian Navy ships will arrive on a ``goodwill port call'' next month, official sources said here.

The seven-member Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) team led by the vice-president of the Beijing-based Academy of Military Science, Lt. Gen. Tian Shugen, would visit India from August 18 to 23.

The delegation is scheduled to visit India's premier training institutions including the National Defence College, New Delhi, Indian Military Academy, Dehradun and College of Combat, Madhya Pradesh.

Meanwhile, two battle ships of the Indian Navy are scheduled to make routine goodwill port call at Shanghai Port in east China in mid-September.

These two battle ships would be part of a fleet of the Navy which are expected to make similar port calls in several South-East Asian nations, official sources said.

- PTI

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