South Korea and Australia agreed Wednesday to enhance bilateral collaboration in military supplies and armament maintenance during talks in Canberra, the defense ministry here said.

The agreement was reached during annual bilateral talks in the Australian capital earlier in the day, according to the Ministry of National Defense.

The two sides also concurred on the need to establish a joint working group to share results of their innovation measures on the defense supply sector and to expand cooperation in the fields of military logistics and armament maintenance, the ministry said.

The bilateral defense supply talks have been held every year since the two countries forged a memorandum of understanding on military supply exchanges in 2010.

The MOU calls for the countries to provide military supplies and services to each other for the purposes of peacekeeping and humanitarian operations, as well as disaster relief. (Yonhap)