Integrated Defence Staff to be instituted

NEW DELHI, SEPT. 15. The Cabinet Committee on Security tonight decided to institute the first-ever Integrated Defence Staff and cleared the establishment of a tri-service command in the Andaman and Nicobar islands. This was announced by the External Affairs and Defence Minister, Mr. Jaswant Singh, after a two-and-a-half hour meeting of the CCS, presided over by the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee.

``The Integrated Defence Staff and the Andaman and Nicobar Command will be established for the first time in the country's history,'' Mr. Singh told presspersons. The Integrated Defence Staff would be a tri-service wing and would introduce for the first time joint-planning, joint-formulations and also to the extent possible, joint-training concepts.

- PTI

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