The Chief of the National Guard, Lt. Gen. Demokritos Zervakis, today had a telephone conversation with the Chief of the General Staff of the Indian Armed Forces, Gen. Anil Chauhan.
According to an announcement by the National Guard, during the telephone conversation between the two Chiefs, which took place in a particularly warm atmosphere, they discussed the geostrategic challenges concerning the Eastern Mediterranean and more broadly, matters of common interest, as well as the prospects for the development of bilateral military cooperation between of the Armed Forces of the two countries, following the signing on December 28, 2022 in Nicosia, of the Memorandum of Understanding on Military Cooperation issues at the level of Ministers of Foreign Affairs.
Finally, the Chief of the National Guard invited his counterpart for an official visit to Cyprus.
India and Cyprus signed, on December 29, a memorandum of understanding on military cooperation. The agreement was signed during the visit of Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar to Cyprus.
The Indians decided to play hard with Ankara by coming to cooperate militarily with the Cypriot republic, while maintaining very good relations with Greece as well.
Indian security agencies are growing concerned as they foresee Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s use of Pakistan-based terror groups in aggressive plans against India to boost the Turkish president’s popularity among South Asian Muslims.
The substantial rapprochement, at the military level, of Cyprus-Greece with India, beyond the bilateral interest, also has a strategic depth, as it is related to the wider geostrategic developments. It is evident that India intends to implement a tripartite defense cooperation between Greece – Israel – India and with the possible participation of the USA. An allied defense scheme, introducing new security data in the Eastern Mediterranean region and beyond.