The Minister of Defence Maj Gen Bashir Salihi Magashi is seeking renewal of the existing bilateral military agreements between Nigeria and France to reflect the real-time security-related needs of the two countries.
General Magashi stated this when the Ambassador of France to Nigeria Emmanuelle Blatmann paid a courtesy call on him at the Ministry of Defence Headquarters, Ship House, Abuja.
In a statement on Tuesday by his special media aide, Mohammad Abdulkadri, the minister said Nigeria and France are strategic partners and pointed out that the partnerships need to be rejigged to take it to higher levels of operability and deliverability.The defence minister, therefore, welcomed a more proactive intelligence gathering mechanism and technological support to drive a new information-sharing regime in aid of their military campaigns in the country.
The general went further to ask for a technological transfer to galvanise the nation’s military productive capabilities in the sector. The Ambassador of France to Nigeria, Emmanuelle Blatmann, who was accompanied on the visit by the Defence Attache, Embassy of France in Nigeria, Colonel Guillaume Dujon thanked the minister for the audience aimed at strengthening the existing bilateral agreements between the two countries.
The ambassador commiserated with the Nigerian Armed Forces over those who paid the supreme price in the line of duty defending the nation’s territorial integrity and sovereignty.
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