Senior lawmaker Brad Sharman of the world's powerful country, the US, sought to amend the National Defense Authorization Act to include India in the NATO plus five-nation group. He said that this would be a necessary step for strong defense relations with New Delhi.
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A few months ago, the US Senate passed a law, which has a provision to give India equal attention to the US-NATO allies and countries like Israel and South Korea to increase defense cooperation.
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Brad Sharman, the chairman of the House's foreign affairs subcommittee on the Asia Pacific, the Pacific region and nuclear non-proliferation, said, "Our defense relations with India are growing. We do more joint exercises with India than any other country. Definitely selling more defense goods to India. He said at an event earlier this year that he was with his colleague Joe Wilson in introducing the bill that included close NATO allies of the US, Australia, New Zealand, Japan. There is a provision to speed up the process of selling arms to South Korea and Israel by including India in the same category.
