BECA, 2+2 dialogue
- September 18, 2020
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Subject: IR
Context:
The U.S. is keen that India sign the last foundational agreement, Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement for Geo-Spatial cooperation (BECA), at the next India-U.S. 2+2 ministerial dialogue likely to held in October end.
Concept:
- Beginning 2016, India has signed three foundational agreements:
- Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA)
- Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement (COMCASA)
- General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA). An extension to the GSOMIA, the Industrial Security Annex (ISA), was signed at the last 2+2 dialogue.
BECA
- BECA will allow the United States to share satellite and other sensor data with India in order to improve the Indian military’s targeting and navigation capabilities.
2+2 dialogue
- It is a format of dialogue where the defense and foreign ministers or secretaries meet with their counterparts from another country.
- 2+2 Ministerial is the highest-level institutional mechanism between the two countries.
- India holds such talks with Australia, at the foreign secretary and defense secretary level but with Japan and the US at the ministerial level