Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday met his Kazakhstan counterpart Lieutenant General Nurlan Yermekbayev.
The information about the meeting was shared through the Twitter account of the Office of the Indian Defence Minister. “Defence Minister of Kazakhstan, Lieutenant General Nurlan Yermekbayev meets Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi,” tweeted the Office of the Defence Minister.
Held talks with the Defence Minister of Kazakhstan, Lieutenant General Nurlan Yermekbayev in New Delhi today. We reviewed the full range of bilateral defence ties and deliberated on ways to enhance cooperation in all fields pertaining to security and defence. pic.twitter.com/el33GFPY8r
— Rajnath Singh (@rajnathsingh) April 9, 2021
Yermekbayev also visited the War Memorial in Delhi and paid his respect to the fallen soldiers by laying a wreath.
Earlier during the day, Minister of Defence of Republic of Kazakhstan Lieutenant General Nurlan Yermekbayev paid homage to the #FallenHeroes at #NationalWarMemorial in New Delhi, today. @indembastana pic.twitter.com/my5pqwlXto
— A. Bharat Bhushan Babu (@SpokespersonMoD) April 9, 2021
The Defence Minister of Kazakhstan was accorded with the Guard of Honour at Vigyan Bhawan in the presence of Singh. He is on a four-day official visit to India from April 7 to 10.
This is Yermekbayev’s first meeting with Singh after he was re-appointed as the Defence Minister of Kazakhstan.
The two ministers had last met in Moscow on September 5, 2020, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers’ meeting.