Raksha Mantri & his German counterpart hold bilateral talks in Berlin to bolster strategic defence partnership

• Bilateral defence engagement between India's Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh and Germany's Federal Defence Minister Mr Boris Pistorius in Berlin on 22 April 2026, advancing a 25-year-old Strategic Partnership.
• Two key instruments inked: Defence Industrial Cooperation Roadmap and Implementing Arrangement for Cooperation in UN Peacekeeping Training.
• Relevance: deepening of India's Indo-Pacific defence diplomacy, Aatmanirbhar Bharat co-production push, and convergence with an EU power amid Russia–Ukraine conflict.