New Delhi and Tokyo have vowed to spice up commerce and safety ties as Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits the Japanese capital
India and Japan have unveiled a ten-year street map for cooperation in varied sectors, as New Delhi seeks wider markets to offset 50% tariffs on its exports to the US.
At a joint press briefing in Tokyo on Friday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart, Shigeru Ishiba, launched a joint assertion that outlines a ten-year street map for cooperation.
“The India-Japan partnership is rooted in mutual trust, reflects our national priorities, and is shaped by our shared values and beliefs,” Modi stated. “Together, we carry a common dream of peace, progress and prosperity of our peoples and for the world.”
In Tokyo, the Asian international locations agreed to strengthen provide chains and funding, and increase cooperation in synthetic intelligence, high-speed rail, house, and different applied sciences.
“I believe it is in the interests of both nations to build a mutually beneficial relationship,” Ishiba stated.
“This involves leveraging each other’s strengths, tackling the challenges we face together, and pooling our wisdom to jointly create solutions for the next generation’s problems – problems for which no one currently holds the answers.”
At the prime ministers’ summit, Japan stated it could make investments $68 billion in India over the subsequent ten years.
New Delhi and Tokyo have additionally agreed to broaden the alternate of expert staff. “The two countries have set an aspirational target of the exchange of more than 500,000 personnel in both directions in the next five years, including 50,000 skilled personnel and potential talents from India to Japan, to create a new wave of people to people exchanges between India and Japan,” the Indian Foreign Ministry stated in a press release.
The prime ministers additionally launched a joint declaration on safety cooperation, during which they affirmed that “Japan and India are partners with a mutual stake in each other’s progress and prosperity, and that a strong and prosperous India is in the interests of Japan and that a strong and prosperous Japan is in the interests of India.”
Modi stated the international locations share “similar concerns about terrorism and cyber security,” in addition to “common interests in defense and maritime security.”
(RT.com)