Washington DC [US], July 29 (ANI): US and Australia on Saturday agreed to additional cooperate with India, Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines and Korea to make sure the safety and stability of the Indo-Pacific on the thirty third Australia-US Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN).

Officials from the 2 international locations on Saturday met in Brisbane. The US delegation was led by Secretary of Defense, Lloyd J Austin, and Secretary of State, Antony Blinken. The Australian delegation included Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Penny Wong.

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During the assembly, the 2 international locations reaffirmed their dedication to enhancing interoperability with the militaries of the Pacific via a variety of workout routines.

They welcomed Fiji, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Tonga’s participation in Exercise TALISMAN SABRE 2023 for the primary time, in addition to India, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines as inaugural observers, in keeping with a truth sheet launched by the US Department of Defence.

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The two international locations welcomed progress beneath the AUKUS partnership (the trilateral safety pact between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) towards the Australian acquisition of a conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarine functionality and the event of superior capabilities to safeguard stability and safety within the Indo-Pacific.

Australia will initially purchase three Virginia-class nuclear-powered assault submarines (recognized by the widespread naval acronym SSN) from the USA. These are prone to be second-hand boats from the US Navy (USN), plus there may be an choice for acquiring two extra Virginia-class submarines ought to plans to construct a brand new class of SSN-AUKUS boats be delayed.

The SSN-AUKUS submarine might be largely based mostly on a British SSN design, however with the incorporation of some American expertise. Both the UK and Australia will get hold of SSN-AUKUS boats, with British manufacturing kicking off barely sooner than in Australia, which is a complete novice at such subtle shipbuilding. The entire intent is for Canberra to have the ability to construct and preserve a fleet of SSNs as a sovereign functionality, however with assist from the UK and USA.

Australia will develop into the seventh nation on this planet to function nuclear-powered submarines. Of course, it ought to be identified as soon as once more that these Australian SSNs should not able to carrying ballistic missiles armed with nuclear warheads. They should not ballistic missile submarines (SSBN), which solely a really unique membership of countries function.

Moreover, Australia and US reaffirmed their dedication to transparency and urged others to take an identical method to their functionality growth.

During the thirty third Australia-US Ministerial Consultations, the 2 international locations deliberate the deployment of a USCG Cutter to the Pacific in early 2024 to additional maritime area consciousness and coaching within the area to deal with maritime safety priorities together with unlawful, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

The two decided that the unbreakable alliance between the United States and Australia has by no means been stronger and that the alliance stays a partnership of strategic curiosity rooted in widespread values and a standard dedication to protect stability, prosperity, and peace.

Against the backdrop of historic momentum for the alliance, the United States and Australia dedicated to advance various key strains of shared effort, in keeping with the US truth sheet titled ‘Secretary Austin’s Eighth Trip to the Indo-Pacific Region.’

This consists of reaffirming respect for one another’s sovereignty and their dedication to operationalize the Alliance, the United States and Australia superior key priorities throughout an formidable vary of drive posture cooperation efforts, together with conducting extra common and longer expeditionary visits of US submarines to Australia beginning this 12 months.

The two reaffirmed the significance of maximizing the strategic and technological benefit of the Alliance in an age of heightened strategic competitors. They superior various key priorities to strengthen their superior capabilities and the well being of their defence industrial bases.

They dedicated to collaborating on vital applied sciences and innovation to make sure the Alliance’s asymmetrical functionality edge and to discover alternatives for regional co-development, co-production, and co-sustainment aligned to agreed functionality priorities.

The two international locations additionally comply with uphold a world order based mostly on worldwide regulation, together with the elemental rules of sovereignty and territorial integrity. They superior various key priorities to strengthen their mutual alliances, partnerships, and trilateral and multilateral safety preparations, in keeping with the actual fact sheet. (ANI)

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