closer defense industry cooperation and collaborationrecognizing their rapidly growing militarytomilitary ties the two sides committed to the creation of a new triservices exercise and to further increase personnel exchanges between the two militaries and defense organizations the ministers reviewed the recent growth of bilateral engagements in support of maritime security and maritime domain awareness and committed to expand cooperation toward that end the ministers committed to start exchanges between the us naval forces central command navcent and the indian navy underscoring the importance of deepening their maritime cooperation in the western indian oceanacknowledging the unique role of technology in the usindia defense partnership the ministers reaffirmed their commitment to continue to encourage and prioritize coproduction and codevelopment projects through the defense technology and trade initiative dtti and to pursue other avenues of defense innovation cooperation in this regard they welcomed the conclusion of a memorandum of intent between the us defense innovation unit diu and the indian defence innovation organization innovation for defence excellence dioidexwelcoming the expansion of bilateral counterterrorism cooperation the ministers announced their intent to increase informationsharing efforts on known or suspected terrorists and to implement un security council resolution 2396 on returning foreign terrorist fighters they committed to enhance their ongoing cooperation in multilateral fora such as the un and fatf they reaffirmed their support for a un comprehensive convention on international terrorism that will advance and strengthen the framework for global cooperation and reinforce the message that no cause or grievance justifies terrorism the ministers denounced any use of terrorist proxies in the region and in this context they called on pakistan to ensure that the territory under its control is not used to launch terrorist attacks on other countries on the eve of the 10year anniversary of the 2611 mumbai attack they called on pakistan to bring to justice expeditiously the perpetrators of the mumbai pathankot uri and other crossborder terrorist attacks the ministers welcomed the launch of a bilateral dialogue on designation of terrorists in 2017 which is strengthening cooperation and action against terrorist groups including alqaida isis lashkaretayyiba jaishemohammad hizbul mujahideen the haqqani network tehrikitaliban pakistan dcompany and their affiliates the two sides further reaffirmed their commitment to ongoing and future cooperation to ensure a stable cyberspace environment and to prevent cyberattackspartners in the indopacific and beyondthe ministers reviewed cooperation in the indopacific region noting that the common principles for the region articulated in the indiaus joint statement of june 2017 have been further amplified by president donald trump at danang vietnam on november 10 2017 and prime minister narendra modi in singapore at the shangrila dialogue on june 1 2018 both sides committed to work together and in concert with other partners toward advancing a free open and inclusive indopacific region based on recognition of asean centrality and on respect for sovereignty territorial integrity rule of law good governance free and fair trade and freedom of navigation and overflight noting the importance of infrastructure and connectivity for the indopacific region both