New Delhi [India], September 6 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar pays an official go to to Japan for the second India-Japan 22 Ministerial Meeting, beginning tomorrow (Wednesday).
During the go to, each the Ministers may even maintain the Defence Ministerial Meeting and Foreign Ministers’ Strategic Dialogue with their counterparts, the Ministry of External Affairs stated in a press release.
Rajnath Singh will meet his Japanese counterpart Yasukazu Hamada, whereas Jaishankar will meet Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi in the course of the go to (September 7-10).
India -Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership is predicated on shared values of democracy, freedom and respect for the rule of legislation. During the go to, India and Japan will additional discover new initiatives to strengthen the partnership.
India-Japan 22 would be the second such assembly between the 2 nations because the inaugural assembly of the India-Japan Foreign and Defence Ministerial Dialogue (22) was held on November 30, 2019, in New Delhi.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met then Foreign Affairs Minister of Japan Motegi Toshimitsu after which Defense Minister of Japan Kono Taro, on November 30, 2019, in New Delhi for the primary India-Japan 22 Foreign and Defence Ministerial Meeting.
The ministers had affirmed that this dialogue will additional improve the strategic depth of bilateral safety and defence cooperation. Acknowledging rising safety challenges, the Ministers reiterated their dedication to advancing bilateral safety cooperation primarily based on the 2008 Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation and the 2009 Action Plan to advance Security Cooperation.
Notably, the India-US 22 Ministerial Dialogue was held between Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin on April 11 in Washington.
During the India-US 22 Ministerial Dialogue, the defence and international ministers of the 2 nations cast new and deeper cooperation throughout the breadth of the US-India partnership, together with defence, science and know-how, commerce, local weather, public well being, and people-to-people ties. (ANI)