Pranab defends Joint Military Exercise with China
Bangalore, Dec 27: Strongly defending the first-ever Indo-China joint anti-terrorism military exercise “Hand-in-Hand 2007″, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today described it as a part of India’s ’security strategy’. Speaking to newspersons on the sidelines of the 80th conference of the Nikhil Bharat Banga Sahithya Sammelan, he said it was a practice and the policy of the Indian Government to interact and organise joint exercises with various countries.