New Delhi [India], March 11 (ANI): Union Minister for Railways, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, met the Digital Minister of Japan Kono Taro on Saturday.
The two held a dialogue on collaborating on new applied sciences, India’s digital public infrastructure, and the nation’s telecom stack.
Following his assembly with Japanese digital minister, Vaishnaw took to his Twitter account to share the knowledge. He tweeted, “Met the Digital Minister of Japan, @konotaromp, and discussed cooperating in emerging technologies and India’s digital public infrastructure and India telecom stack. “The assembly of Ashwini Vaishnaw with Japanese digital minister was held only some days earlier than the India go to of Prime Minister of Japan, Kishida Fumio.
Notably, following the top-level ministerial visits from ally nations, New Delhi is able to welcome one other vital ally, Japan for a high-level bilateral go to.
The Ministry of External Affairs, in an official assertion, knowledgeable the schedule of Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio’s go to to India from March 20 to 21.
Ever since Fumio assumed the highest workplace, that is his second go to to India. Last Japanese PM visited India was in March 2022 for the India-Japan Economic Forum.
During the go to, Fumio will maintain talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Both sides will talk about bilateral and regional problems with mutual curiosity. They may also talk about their priorities for his or her respective Presidencies of the G7 and G20. India is at the moment the chair of the Group of 20 economies for 2023.
Japanese international minister Yoshimasa Hayashi couldn’t attend the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting resulting from an ongoing session of the Japanese Parliament. The Japanese international minister participated within the eighth Raisina Dialogue within the morning of March 3. He participated within the panel dialogue, “The QUAD Squad: Power and Purpose of the Polygon “, and acknowledged that the Quad isn’t an effort to counter nor to pursue navy cooperation, however to advertise sensible cooperation.
Minister Hayashi additionally acknowledged that, as 4 nations which share basic values, the Quad intends to guide efforts to keep up and improve a free and open worldwide order based mostly on the rule of regulation. During the panel, Minister Hayashi engaged in a full of life dialogue on concrete cooperation among the many Quad and the relations with regional nations, with Antony Blinken, Secretary of State of the United States of America, Senator the Hon Penny Wong, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Commonwealth of Australia, and Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs of India.
He drew an analogy between the Asian Quad with the long-lasting English rock band ‘The Beatles’ and mentioned the grouping of Japan, Australia, the United States, and India is extra like a “soft Beatles” the place the members can launch their “solo albums”. In tandem with different G7 members, Japan has been bolstering financial sanctions on Russia. But India has abstained from implementing punitive measures towards Russia. India has additionally emerged as a key nation of the “Global South,” a time period that collectively refers to creating nations in areas resembling Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Nikkei Asia reported final week that Kishida is eager to deepen ties with such nations to pave the best way for the success of the G7 in-person summit scheduled for May in Japan’s western metropolis of Hiroshima. During the envisioned assembly, Kishida is anticipated to ask Modi to take part within the G7 summit. (ANI)