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LEMOA fully operational now
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- The India-U.S. foundational agreement for mutual logistics support, the Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA), has been fully operationalised over the past few months.
- India concluded the third foundational agreement, Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement (COMCASA), which is meant for secure encrypted communications.
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- India had concluded the LEMOA in August 2016 in a culmination of a decade of negotiations between the two countries.
- The pact gives both countries access to designated military facilities on either side for the purpose of refuelling and replenishment in primarily four areas — port calls, joint exercises, training and humanitarian assistant he biggest beneficiary of the LEMOA is the Indian Navy, which interacts and exercises the most with foreign Navies.
- The Navy has a fuel exchange agreement with the U.S. for fuel transfer on the high seas, which is set to expire in November.
- Now fuel exchange gets subsumed into the LEMOA and does away with the need for a separate agreement,
- With COMCASA, India has signed three of the four foundational or enabling agreements with the U.S. meant to improve interoperability between the militaries and allow transfer of high-end military platforms and disaster relief.
- The SOPs include designating the points of contact for the U.S. military to work with, and set up, a common account for payments.
- Information pact
- General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA), which is for information safety, was signed in 2002.
- COMCASA, which was signed at the 2+2 dialogue, is an India-specific version of the Communication and Information on Security Memorandum of Agreement (CISMOA).
- The last one remaining is the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement for Geo-spatial Cooperation (BECA).
Source
The Hindu