Washington: The Philippines Ambassador to the United States, Jose Manuel del Gallego Romualdez, highlighted the strength of the India-Philippines relationship, calling New Delhi “one of Manila’s top partners and friends.”

At a private event on Wednesday evening in Washington, Romualdez highlighted India’s sale of BrahMos missiles to the Philippines as evidence of a strong defence partnership.

“We look at India now as one of our top partners and friends. They have been very supportive of the Philippines…We are actually buying quite many defence equipment like BrahMos and are also working with India on the technology side,” he added.

His statement comes days after the Philippine Marine Corps publicly unveiled India’s BrahMos supersonic cruise missile system.

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