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India and Mongolia hold the fourteenth Joint Working Group meeting on defence at Ulaanbaatar

The fourteenth meeting of the India-Mongolia Joint Working Group on defence was held in Ulaanbaatar.
It was co-chaired by Joint Secretary Ishita Ganguli Tripathy of India's Ministry of Defence and Deputy State Secretary of Defence Brigadier General Gansukh E of Mongolia.
The two sides reviewed ongoing cooperation, assessed existing initiatives and exchanged views on regional and international developments.
Both welcomed the conclusion of Exercise Nomadic Elephant, the bilateral army exercise.
Mongolia acknowledged India's continued support for training and capacity building of its armed forces personnel.
The Indian delegation visited the National Defence University of Mongolia and reviewed the Cyber Security Training Centre set up with Indian assistance.

Meeting: 14th Joint Working Group Venue: Ulaanbaatar Bilateral exercise welcomed: Exercise Nomadic Elephant
Why it matters for exams: Bilateral exercise names and their partner countries are among the most frequently asked defence facts, and Nomadic Elephant is India's army exercise with Mongolia.
Kerala PSCUPSC
16 October 2026 Source: Press Information Bureau

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Joint Working Group Joint Working Group — A standing official-level mechanism through which two countries review and plan cooperation in a specific field.

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