Tokyo [Japan], November 8 (ANI): Union Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan arrived in Tokyo on Wednesday morning and stated that India and Japan cherish a Special Strategic and Global Partnership rooted in historical historic ties.
“Reached Tokyo this morning. Look forward to my engagements including interaction with Indian community. India and Japan cherish a Special Strategic and Global Partnership rooted in ancient historical ties and shared values,” MoS Muraleedharan wrote on ‘X’.
MoS Muraleedharan is paying an official go to to Japan from November 8 to 10.
During the go to, MoS Muraleedharan is predicted to carry conferences with ministers, enterprise leaders, academia and members of the Indian diaspora.
According to an official assertion by the Ministry of External Affairs, he’ll go to Kyoto, Hiroshima and Oita, in addition to Tokyo.
Moreover, he’s scheduled to ship a lecture on “India and the Emerging World” at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Oita.
Notably, India and Japan share a “Special Strategic and Global Partnership” overlaying a variety of areas of cooperation.
The friendship between the 2 international locations has an extended historical past rooted in non secular affinity and robust cultural and civilizational ties.
There is rising strategic convergence between the 2 international locations. There is synergy between India’s Act-East Policy, Indo-Pacific imaginative and prescient based mostly on the precept of SAGAR, and Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI) on one hand, and Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision on the opposite.
India-Japan relations had been elevated to ‘Global Partnership’ in 2000, ‘Strategic and Global Partnership’ in 2006, and ‘Special Strategic and Global Partnership’ in 2014.
Moreover, common annual summits have been held between India and Japan since, in response to the assertion.
MoS Muraleedharan’s go to is predicted to additional solidify the wide-ranging partnership between the 2 international locations, the assertion stated.
Moreover, Muraleedharan final week visited Mauritius to take part within the commemoration of the 189th anniversary of the arrival of indentured labourers which befell on November 2.
In July, whereas talking on the India-Japan Forum in Delhi, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar stated that Japan was the inspiration as the federal government advances Atmanirbhar Bharat.
The EAM stated that the pure seamlessness between the 2 oceans is changing into related at this time. In this context, Quad is an instance of strategic creativeness. The EAM additionally stated that India and Japan will work collectively for the way forward for worldwide order; in new applied sciences, methods and tradition. (ANI)