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India UAE Defense Deal: The short but high profile visit of UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to India has once again brought India’s growing influence in West Asia into the spotlight. During this short visit, India and UAE have confirmed their rapidly growing strategic partnership. This includes cooperation in defence, security and trade. With this, a target of bilateral trade of 200 million dollars has been set in the next 6 years. Meanwhile, let us know whether India has also signed a defense deal with UAE like Pakistan-Saudi Arabia.
what is pakistan saudi arabia defense agreement
In September 2025, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a strategic mutual defense agreement. This greatly strengthened their military alliance. The most important clause of this agreement is that any attack on one country will be considered an attack on another country. This agreement mainly focuses on tight security. This includes intelligence sharing, joint military training, defense production and strategic coordination.
india uae defense agreement
India’s defense partnership with the UAE is fundamentally different in nature and intent. India and UAE have signed a letter of intent for a strategic security partnership. But let us tell you that this is not a mutual defense treaty. There is no clause in it that forces India to intervene militarily if UAE is attacked. Instead this agreement has been designed as a long-term strategic and industrial partnership.
There is no Article 5 clause in India UAE agreement
The most important difference is the absence of collective security obligations. Unlike the Pakistan-Saudi agreement, the India-UAE agreement does not say that an attack on one will be considered an attack on the other. This is in line with India’s long-standing foreign policy principle of strategic autonomy.
Another big difference is that India-UAE defense partnership is linked to economic and technological goals. Along with defense cooperation, both the countries have targeted to increase trade to 200 million dollars by 2032. Joint defense manufacturing, startups in military technology and dual-use innovations are seen as engines of growth. This is exactly the opposite of the Pakistan-Saudi agreement. Because that agreement focuses more on military and security objectives.
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