New Delhi [India], August 26 (ANI): Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on Tuesday mentioned that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to Japan will likely be a possibility to launch a number of new initiatives geared toward strengthening India-Japan relations.
Addressing a particular briefing by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on the Prime Minister’s go to to Japan and China, Misri mentioned the go to would assist open new avenues of cooperation and improve resilience within the Indo-Pacific area.
‘This may even be a possibility to launch a number of new initiatives so as to construct larger resilience within the relationship and to answer rising alternatives and challenges. Overall, the go to will consolidate our longstanding friendship. It will open recent avenues of cooperation and reaffirm our shared dedication to peace, prosperity, and stability, each for the 2 international locations in addition to in our shared Indo-Pacific area and past,’ he mentioned.
Misri additionally famous that PM Modi will maintain engagements exterior of Tokyo as a part of the annual India-Japan summit.
‘One of the options of the annual summit between India and Japan is an engagement between the 2 leaders exterior the capital, and on this event as effectively, this system features a go to exterior Tokyo, which is once more going to be one thing to stay up for for the 2 leaders,’ he added.
The Prime Minister can also be scheduled to take part in a enterprise leaders’ discussion board involving prime trade representatives from each international locations.
‘The program additionally consists of interactions of the Prime Minister with a number of different political leaders from Japan, as additionally with Friends of India in Japan. The Prime Minister may even take part in a enterprise leaders’ discussion board with captains of Japanese and Indian trade. These interactions are geared toward deepening the essential commerce, funding and expertise relationship between the 2 international locations,’ Misri mentioned.
Highlighting the rising state-level cooperation, Misri mentioned a devoted engagement on India-Japan prefectural partnerships can also be a part of the agenda.
‘We have additionally seen lately an intensification of the engagement between Indian states and Japanese prefectures. And an engagement targeted on this explicit side has additionally been deliberate for through the go to,’ he mentioned. (ANI)