INDIAN NAVY VESSELS DOCK IN MALAYSIA FOR GOODWILL VISIT

PORT KLANG (Malaysia), June 21 (Bernama) -- The Indian Navy's guided missile
destroyers INS Rana and INS Ranjit and fleet tanker INS Jyoti docked at the Star
Cruise Terminal in Wesport here Sunday for a four-day goodwill visit.

The Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet Rear Admiral P.Murugesan said the
visit indicated the importance of the long relationship between Royal Malaysian
Navy and Indian Navy.

He said the visit was also to commemorate the maritime cooperation between
the two nations.

"The Navy is an ideal platform to provide security arrangement to the
maritime. I think in that direction both navies have enormous scope to work
together and then provide the safe maritime security environment so that our
trade progresses and our countries' development will increase.

"We would be doing the maritime security exercise with the Malaysian Navy
when we are leaving on June 23," he told reporters at a press conference here.
Also present was the Indian High Commisioner here, Vijay Gokhale.

Members of the public can tour the vessels for two days from Monday.

-- BERNAMA