New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): India and Japan reaffirmed their Special Strategic and Global Partnership throughout the go to of Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi from January 15-17, with either side agreeing to deepen cooperation in AI, essential minerals, defence and regional safety.
Motegi referred to as on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and in addition held the 18th India-Japan Strategic Dialogue with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.
In an official assertion, the Ministry of External Affairs stated that throughout the Strategic Dialogue, the Ministers reviewed your complete gamut of the multi-faceted relations, together with provide chain resilience in essential sectors, funding, commerce, know-how and innovation, defence, people-to-people exchanges and cultural ties.
‘They underlined the significance of additional strengthening the India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership in step with the outcomes of the fifteenth Annual Summit of August 2025 and the current discussions between the Prime Ministers in Johannesburg,’ the MEA stated.
‘Taking ahead the Japan-India AI Initiative (JAI) introduced by the 2 Prime Ministers, the Ministers launched the AI Dialogue giving a coherent push to bilateral cooperation on this sector. Both sides additionally determined to convene the Joint Working Group on Critical Minerals beneath the Economic Security Initiative to advance collaboration in uncommon earth parts and demanding minerals,’ it added.
It additional talked about that the Ministers additionally exchanged views on varied regional and international problems with curiosity. ‘They harassed the essential position performed by the sturdy and enduring partnership between India and Japan in making certain a free, open, peaceable, affluent and rules-based Indo-Pacific area,’ the MEA assertion said.
‘The two Ministers regarded ahead to celebrating the 12 months 2027 because the seventy fifth anniversary of the institution of diplomatic relations between India and Japan, the assertion stated,’ it added.
Earlier, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, together with Japanese Ambassador to India, Keiichi Ono, took a journey on the Delhi Metro on Saturday.
During his go to to India, Motegi additionally paid a courtesy name to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and held discussions on varied areas resembling financial safety, economic system, funding and innovation, together with AI, and people-to-people exchanges.
In a submit on X, Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated, ‘FM MOTEGI made a courtesy name on H.E. Mr. Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, throughout his go to to Delhi, India. Bearing in thoughts the ‘Japan-India Joint Vision for the Next Decade’ launched throughout PM Modi’s go to to Japan final August, that they had a candid trade of views over a variety of areas, resembling safety, together with financial safety, economic system, funding and innovation, together with AI, and people-to-people exchanges, and concurred to raise Japan-India relations to new heights.’
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Speaking throughout his opening remarks on the 18th India-Japan Strategic Dialogue with Toshimitsu, Jaishankar stated India locations a really excessive precedence on its partnership with Japan, which has advanced over the previous twenty years right into a broad, complete and strategic relationship.
‘India attaches very nice precedence to its friendship with Japan. And over the past twenty years, we now have been profitable in reworking the connection from what was primarily an financial relationship into one that’s broad, complete, and strategic in its focus,’ Jaishankar stated, referring to cooperation in platforms such because the Quad, the United Nations, the G4 grouping and the G20. (ANI)