New Delhi [India], January 18 (ANI): Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, who was on a three-day go to to India on Saturday, visited Raj Ghat and provided tributes to the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi
He additionally wrote within the customer’s visitor ebook and was felicitated with books on Mahatma Gandhi and a mannequin of a Charkha
Motegi accompanied by Japanese Ambassador to India Ono Keiichi additionally took a trip on the Delhi Metro from the Central Secretariat metro station to Patel Chowk and again.
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, DMRC, in a social media put up, stated that in his go to, the Japanese Foreign Minister confirmed eager curiosity about varied points of the development and operation of the Delhi Metro, which is a proud image of Indo-Japanese friendship and collaboration.
During his go to to India, Motegi additionally paid a courtesy name to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and held discussions on varied areas reminiscent of financial safety, financial system, funding and innovation, together with AI, and people-to-people exchanges.
In a put up 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 alternate of views over a variety of areas, reminiscent of safety, together with financial safety, financial 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 developed 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 have now been profitable in remodeling 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.
Jaishankar additionally famous that India and Japan will mark 75 years of diplomatic relations subsequent yr, and expressed confidence that the particular, strategic and international partnership will proceed to strengthen.
Japan on Friday stated it sees India as a ‘pure associate’ and attaches sturdy significance to ties with ‘like-minded nations like India’ throughout Foreign Affairs Minister Toshimitsu Motegi’s go to to the nation.
Highlighting the importance of the India go to, Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Toshihiro Kitamura stated Motegi’s journey marks his first overseas go to this yr and displays Japan’s precedence on strengthening partnerships with nations like India.
‘This is the primary overseas journey this yr. We strongly consider {that a} relationship with like-minded nations like India is necessary. We consider in a powerful partnership with the worldwide south. He has chosen India as a pure associate,’ Kitamura stated.
Explaining what Tokyo goals to realize by the go to, Kitamura stated Japan and India share ‘frequent and strategic pursuits’ and that the journey is targeted on making certain progress on the concrete agreements taken ahead after PM Modi’s go to to Japan final yr.
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 each side agreeing to deepen cooperation in AI, vital 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 the whole gamut of the multi-faceted relations, together with provide chain resilience in vital 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 latest 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 below the Economic Security Initiative to advance collaboration in uncommon earth parts and significant 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 function 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 seemed ahead to celebrating the yr 2027 because the seventy fifth anniversary of the institution of diplomatic relations between India and Japan, the assertion stated,’ it added.
The assembly follows PM Modi and Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi’s assembly in Johannesburg earlier this yr on the sidelines of the G20 Leaders’ Summit in South Africa. (ANI)