ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s navy has signed a memorandum with the US Nationwide Guard in Montana, to increase interoperability, joint coaching, catastrophe restoration and anti-drug operations.
“From wildfire response and flood aid in Montana to peacekeeping and humanitarian efforts abroad, the Montana Nationwide Guard has a proud report of service and professionalism,” US Ambassador Julie Chung mentioned in an announcement.
“This partnership with Sri Lanka, reaffirmed by at this time’s MOU, strengthens our shared resolve for a safe Indo-Pacific—constructing belief, readiness, and lasting peace by partnership.”
Deliberate actions embody :
Joint coaching {and professional} exchanges to boost interoperability and readiness.
Maritime Area Consciousness cooperation, addressing trafficking, migration, and narcotics interdiction.
Disaster response and humanitarian help, leveraging the Guard’s twin navy–civilian capabilities, to incorporate navy medical and engineer actions.
Aviation operations, supporting mission success by ability and excellence.
Navy and civil catastrophe readiness and response, military-civilian coordination for catastrophe preparedness, response, and restoration.
“This settlement represents a progressive initiative that may additional improve Sri Lanka’s protection capabilities and reinforce the enduring partnership with america,” Sri Lankan Protection Secretary Air Vice Marshal Sampath Thuyacontha (Retd) mentioned.
“Through the years, our two nations have lengthy cooperated in areas equivalent to navy coaching, catastrophe aid, and protection exchanges, fostering mutual understanding and belief.
“This framework will open new avenues for collaboration, promote capacity-building, and contribute to making sure peace, safety, and stability throughout the area.”
The co-operation is coming by America’s State Partnership Program began in 1993, to create hyperlinks between US state Nationwide Guards and parter international locations.
The SPP pairs the U.S. Nationwide Guard with overseas navy counterparts to help protection safety objectives equivalent to civil-military preparedness, important infrastructure safety, and protection modernization.
By way of alternate applications and joint capacity-building workouts, companions strengthen interoperability.
By way of the SPP, the Nationwide Guard of each state three US territories and the District of Columbia is partnered with over 100 accomplice international locations selling peace, stability, and mutual readiness by coaching, humanitarian help, and experience alternate.
“We’re honored to face shoulder to shoulder with our Sri Lankan counterparts,” Brigadier Common Trenton Gibson, Adjutant Common of the Montana Nationwide Guard was quoted as saying within the assertion.
“Collectively, we’ll construct power, belief, and lasting bonds that improve the safety of each our nations.” (Colombo/Nov15/2025)
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