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INDIA AND THE W ORLD

BECA, SIGN OF NEW EQUILIBRIUM
BEC A, SIGN OF NEW EQUILIBRIUM

IN INDO-US RELATIONS
IN INDO-US RELA
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BY SRIPATHI NARAYANAN*

he Basic Exchange and Cooperation the two sides were cautious in their engagement
Agreement for Geo-Spatial Intelligence till the turn of the century, which also witnessed
T(BECA), signed during the visit of the US the Pokhran-II nuclear weapons testing on India’s
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of part, followed by the Kargil conflict. It was only in

Defence Mark T. Esper, for the third India-U.S. 2+2 2005, the ice was broken when the India-US Civil
Ministerial Dialogue in New Delhi on 27 October, Nuclear Agreement was signed, accompanied by

was not only significant but also overshadowed the first comprehensive defence agreement between
other outcomes of the visit. The list included the two countries.
agreements on Earth Observation and Science and Despite the nuclear deal, which too was

Nuclear Energy Partnership. While BECA will stymied by difficult negotiations at various turns,
facilitate greater engagement between their two the bilateral ties remained complicated. This can
militaries, its timing is equally important. Coming be deduced from the staggered nature in fi nalising
after six months after incursions in eastern Ladakh, the “Foundation Agreements”- the General Security
the Chinese troops remain there, with little progress of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) in
made on the ground in talks for their withdrawal. 2002, Logistic Support Agreement (LSA) in 2016,
the Communications and Information Security
The rocky road to BECA Memorandum of Agreement (CISMOA) in 2018,
The history of the bilateral ties between the and now BECA. For the US, all four ‘foundation
world’s oldest and largest democracies has had agreements’ constitute the cornerstone in its global
its fair share of ups and downs. Post-Cold War, network of allies – having had over a hundred

The US Secretary of State, Mr. Mike Pompeo and the US Defence Secretary, Dr. Mark T. Esper
calls on the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, in New Delhi on October 27, 2020.

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