New Delhi [India], August 26 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will likely be on a two-day go to to Japan from August 29, throughout which he’ll participate within the Annual Summit together with his Japanese counterpart Shigeru Ishiba, with the 2 leaders slated to evaluation bilateral ties and change views on regional and international problems with significance.
At a particular media briefing on PM Modi’s go to to Japan and later to China for the SCO Summit, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri mentioned that India-Japan bilateral relations have expanded steadily in scope and ambition during the last decade, and right this moment comprise commerce and funding, defence and safety, science and know-how, infrastructure and mobility, people-to-people contact, and vibrant cultural engagement between the 2 sides.
‘India and Japan are two international locations that share values, belief, and a strategic outlook on a number of points. They are two of Asia’s main democracies and amongst the highest 5 world economies,’ Misri mentioned. It is Prime Minister Modi’s first Annual Summit with Prime Minister Ishiba, and additionally it is his first standalone go to to Japan in almost seven years.
‘This can also be Prime Minister’s eighth go to to Japan since he took workplace in 2014, and displays the very excessive precedence that this specific relationship has in our international relations,’ Misri mentioned.
The annual summit between India and Japan represents the highest-level dialogue mechanism that exists between the 2 international locations, and it drives the agenda of the India-Japan particular strategic and international partnership.
Misri mentioned India and Japan share values, belief, and a strategic outlook on a number of points.
He mentioned the annual summit will even be a chance to launch a number of new initiatives to construct larger resilience within the relationship, and to answer rising alternatives and challenges.
The Foreign Secretary famous that one of many key options of the annual summit between India and Japan is the engagement between the 2 leaders exterior the capital.
‘On this event as properly, the programme features a go to exterior Tokyo, which is once more going to be one thing to stay up for for the 2 leaders. The programme additionally contains interactions of the Prime Minister with a number of different political leaders from Japan, as additionally with mates of India,’ he mentioned.
‘The Prime Minister will even take part in a enterprise leaders’ discussion board with captains of Japanese and Indian business. These interactions are aimed toward deepening the essential commerce, funding and know-how relationship between the 2 international locations,’ he added.
Misri mentioned there was, lately, an intensification of the engagement between Indian states and Japanese prefectures, and an engagement centered on this specific side has additionally been deliberate for through the go to.
‘Overall, the go to will consolidate our long-standing 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. (ANI)