Pakistan and France have agreed to accelerate military co-operation between the two countries and offered military courses and training assistance for all the three organs of defence.
In this connection, Defence Collaboration Plan was signed in a special signing ceremony for the years 2008-09, at Joint Staff Headquarters here on Tuesday where Director General Foreign Military Co-operation Joint Staff Headquarters, Major General Noor Hussain and Air Marshal Pierre Bourlot, Deputy Chief of Staff of French Forces for International Relations signed the plan.
The two countries have agreed to participate in forthcoming major training exercises of joint forces, which will be held during the next two years. The plan also envisages exchange of technical expertise to boost level of co-operation in technological matters and its transfer for capacity building of Pakistan Armed Forces. The talks continued for two days which concluded on Tuesday with the resolve to boost military ties between two countries.