



: GMS and South Asia.
A secondary objective is to provide a venue for the GMS governments to gain better understanding of the policy, legal and regulatory requirements for promoting Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in infrastructure development by learning from the rich experience and best practices of India in PPP.
Even capacity-building in the defence sector has become more pronounced—as is evident from New Delhi’s offer to help out in maritime security during the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Asean Regional Forum (ARF).
Finally, the Asean economies, and their contiguous partners provide a land bridge for India to access the Asia-Pacific—and that has made them partners in the security sphere too. This has steadily gained in importance with India transcending ‘sectoral dialogue’ to access ‘full dialogue’ partnership. What has also gained strength alongside is the political level of interaction with the Asean—summitry with India started in 2002....
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