New Delhi [India], March 20 (ANI): Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met Prime Minsiter Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Monday and held bilateral talks.
Kishida who arrived within the nationwide capital early this morning on a two-day official go to visited Rajghat right here and paid floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi.
The Japanese PM was recieved by Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on the Palam airport. The chief’s go to to the nationwide capital is seen as a terrific alternative to overview bilateral ties between the 2 international locations.
This is Kishida’s second go to to the nation as Prime Minister of Japan.
With Japan and India holding the presidencies of G7 and G20 respectively, the 2 leaders are anticipated to debate what function Japan and India ought to play inside the worldwide group.
The go to of Kishida provides an essential alternative for each counties to interact on a bilateral stage for the reason that final Summit assembly between India and Japan befell in March 2022.
Later at this time, Kishida will ship an handle on a brand new plan for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific. PM Shinzo Abe initially mentioned Indo-Pacific cooperation on his journey to Delhi fifteen years in the past.
“With regard to bilateral Japan-India relations, I want to confirm the further deepening of the Special Strategic and Global Partnership between India and Japan. I will also deliver an address in India on a new plan for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific. I will clearly lay out my thinking regarding the role that a Free and Open Indo-Pacific will play at this historic turning point,” Kishida stated forward of his departure.
Japan is a really shut associate of India and each international locations maintain an Annual Summit and a 22 Foreign and Defence Ministerial Meeting. Furthermore, the Defence cooperation between the 2 nations has additionally emerged as one of many key areas of engagement.
During his India go to, Kishida is predicted to ask PM Narendra Modi to take part within the G7 in-person summit which goes to happen in Hiroshima in May. (ANI)