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Kavkaz 2020
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- India has withdrawn its participation in Kavkaz 2020 multinational exercise in Russia in September.
Details:
- In view of the pandemic and consequent difficulties in exercise, including arrangements of logistics, India has decided not to send the contingent to Kavkaz 2020.
- Other reasons include participation of Chinese troops and the Georgian breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia which have been recognised only by Russia and a few other countries.
Kavkaz 2020
- The invitees to Kavkaz 2020 strategic command-post exercise, also referred to as Caucasus-2020, to be held in Astrakhan in Southern Russia from September 15 to 26 include Pakistan, Turkey and other member-states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
- India had confirmed its participation and a tri-service contingent consisting of 150 Army personnel and a small number of Navy and Air Force personnel had been identified.