India can help us strengthen defence, anti-terrorism: Namibian envoy Pius Dunaiski

• The Republic of Namibia is a vast, sparsely populated country situated along the south Atlantic coast.
• In 2014, it bought 3,400 Indian-made electronic voting machines (EVMs) at a cost of Namibian $10 million.
• Namibian High Commissioner to India, Pius Dunaiski, said that to boost the country’s defence system, they wanted India to train officers in the Namibian Army, Air Force and Navy on advanced techniques and facilities being used by the defence forces of other nations.
• Pius Dunaiski a fifty-eight-year old diplomat, who has also been Namibia’s envoy to Germany and Angola.
• “The anti-terrorism capabilities and the peace-keeping strategies are India’s asset, and Namibia can get a lot of help, and learn in both the sectors,” he added.
• “Infrastructure development, agriculture, industrialisation, and most importantly, the mining sector will be the prime areas of discussion with the Indian counterparts. Agriculture especially because the technology the Indians use in agriculture is very adaptable for the Africans. Industrialisation will be another important area because we want development in that sector,” Dunaiski told.
• Namibia has a target named “Vision 2030” and all major investment exchanges with countries were a part of it.
• India and Namibia have earlier signed five agreements, including one on civil nuclear energy, which allows for supply of uranium from the African country.

Source: EconomicTimes