New Delhi, December 05, 2007 (DefenceIndia News Service)

Aiming to workout together in anti-terror strategy, Indian and Chinese Red Army troops iare all set to carry out their first ever joint military exercise in mountains of Kunming in Yunnan province from 19th December , the army officials said in New Delhi on Tuesday.

Giving the details about the historic event, the army officials said that 88 troops and officers from India and an equal number of personnel from the Chinese army would take part in anti-terror tactics for nine days in the Yunnan highlands.

"The personnel would be divided into groups and carry out anti-terror manouvres including cordon and search operations, heliborne operations and other operations during the exercises", the army official said.

Further elaborating on the day of exercise, they said that the dates and venue for the exercises was fixed during meetings a Chinese Red Army delegation had with their Indian counterparts in the Eastern Army Command headquarters at Fort Williams in Kolkata.

(Zee News)