New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, together with Japanese Ambassador to India, Keiichi Ono, took a journey on the Delhi Metro on Saturday.
The Japanese delegation was briefed concerning the Delhi Metro venture by senior DMRC officers at Central Secretariat, adopted by a practice journey from Central Secretariat to Patel Chowk and again.
As per an announcement by the DMRC, throughout his go to, the Minister confirmed eager curiosity in varied features of the development and operation of the Delhi Metro, which is a proud image of Indo-Japanese friendship and collaboration.
The assertion highlighted that the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has prolonged monetary assist to the Delhi Metro venture since Phase 1.
Toshimitsu Motegi is in India from January 15 to January 17, as per the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
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 publish on X, Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs mentioned, ‘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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India and Japan unveiled new initiatives to push bilateral cooperation within the sector of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and demanding minerals through the 18th Strategic Dialogue between the 2 international locations.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Japanese counterpart Toshimitsu Motegi launched a brand new AI dialogue and likewise determined to convene a Joint Working Group on crucial minerals to take ahead cooperation on uncommon earth components, the Ministry of External Affairs mentioned.
Speaking throughout his opening remarks on the 18th India-Japan Strategic Dialogue with Toshimitsu, Jaishankar mentioned 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 during the last twenty years, we have now 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 mentioned, referring to cooperation in platforms such because the Quad, the United Nations, the G4 grouping and the G20. (ANI)