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(ACSA) Japan boosts ‘logistics’ cooperation with US military amid tensions with China & N. Korea
Japan has amended its Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement (ACSA) with the United States to enable the provision of military supplies list under the country’s new security legislation enacted earlier this year.
After decades of maintaining a defensive military posture in March Tokyo passed a set of two laws enabling Japan to practice collective self-defense and allowing for significant expansions of the nature the country’s military forces operations in overseas missions.
Previously Japan collaborated with Washington partly through the ACSA by supplying fuel, food, and providing logistics, as well as other non-lethal items during joint exercises, UN-led peacekeeping operations, and international search and rescue operations. That Japanese aid to the US has been limited to military emergencies affecting Japan.
Previously Japan collaborated with Washington partly through the ACSA by supplying fuel, food, and providing logistics, as well as other non-lethal items during joint exercises, UN-led peacekeeping operations, and international search and rescue operations. That Japanese aid to the US has been limited to military emergencies affecting Japan.
But changes to the laws in spring and the revised ACSA deal now expand Tokyo’s potential cooperation with Washington by broadening the types of operations and support, allowing, for instance, the provision of munitions if Japan’s security will be threatened by failing to do so.
“The agreement we’re signing today will enable us to smoothly implement the [security] cooperation between Japan and the United States, which was expanded by the legislation,” Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said at the signing ceremony held in Tokyo, the Japan reported.
US Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy meanwhile called the updated agreement “critical to effective cooperation”between American and Japanese forces in the region.
“As we work together to modernize our security alliance and provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief across the Pacific, we will be aided greatly by the integration of effort that this agreement makes possible,” she said.
The amended ACSA now requires the approval of the National Diet, Japan’s bicameral legislature, for it to come into effect. According to Japanese officials who spoke with the Japan , the revised ACSA will allow the SDF to provide ammunition to the US forces in non-emergency situations, which will include information gathering missions, antipiracy operations or missions to deal with ballistic missile threats. Weapons, however, will continue to be excluded from the supplies list, the officials said.
SAVE WATER : National Award winning flim :Tamil film 'Visaranai...
SAVE WATER : National Award winning flim :Tamil film 'Visaranai...: National Award winning : The Vetrimaaran's critically acclaimed Tamil drama Visaranai was announced as India's official pick for O...
SAVE WATER : National Award winning flim :Tamil film 'Visaranai...
SAVE WATER : National Award winning flim :Tamil film 'Visaranai...: National Award winning : The Vetrimaaran's critically acclaimed Tamil drama Visaranai was announced as India's official pick for O...
SAVE WATER : National Award winning flim :Tamil film 'Visaranai...
SAVE WATER : National Award winning flim :Tamil film 'Visaranai...: National Award winning : The Vetrimaaran's critically acclaimed Tamil drama Visaranai was announced as India's official pick for O...
National Award winning flim :Tamil film 'Visaranai' is India's Oscar entry
National Award winning : The Vetrimaaran's critically acclaimed Tamil drama Visaranai was announced as India's official pick for Oscars 2017 in the Foreign Language Film category.
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Out of the 29 movies in the competition, 'Visaranai' was chosen by the jury unanimously," filmmaker Ketan Mehta, jury chairperson of Film Festival of India (FFI), said here.
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Out of the 29 movies in the competition, 'Visaranai' was chosen by the jury unanimously," filmmaker Ketan Mehta, jury chairperson of Film Festival of India (FFI), said here.
A post from the official Twitter handle of Vetrimaaran's banner Grassroot Film Company, read: "We're on cloud9!!! 'Visaranai' has been chosen to represent India at the Oscars."
Visaranai features Dinesh, Samuthirakani, Ajay Ghosh and Kishore in the lead. The film earned critical acclaim earlier last year when it had its world premiere at Venice International Film Festival. It also won National Film Awards.
The film produced by Dhanush, who had released the film under his home banner Wunderbar Films.
The Kolkata police a successful operation while arresting six key members of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen
Bengaluru, Sept 27: the JMB have often sought shelter in South India after carrying out an operation in West Bengal or Bangladesh. The traces of JMB operatives entering South India have been discovered on more than two ocassions. A recent arrest of an operative in Tamil Nandu's is one such indication. While the JMB which has tied up with the ISIS, has decided on establishing the Bengal Caliphate, it also nurtures plans in South India. At first the South was used more as a hideout. However, the outfit realised that there is a vacuum in the absence of the Indian Mujahideen or the SIMI.
The Kolkata police executed a successful operation while arresting six key members of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, Bangladesh on Monday. While a large part of the problem has been sorted out, officials say that there are still two modules in South India which need to neutralized.
The Kolkata police executed a successful operation while arresting six key members of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, Bangladesh on Monday. While a large part of the problem has been sorted out, officials say that there are still two modules in South India which need to neutralized.
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