Tokyo [Japan], March 3(ANI): Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida plans to go to India later this month for talks along with his counterpart Narendra Modi, a authorities supply mentioned on Friday, whilst Tokyo holds the presidency of the Group of Seven nations this 12 months, the Nikkei Asia reported.
Kishida’s journey to India, at the moment chair of the Group of 20 economies for 2023, would come weeks after his authorities didn’t ship Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi to a gathering of the G-20 prime diplomats, held for 2 days by Thursday in New Delhi.
Hayashi’s absence triggered a backlash that Japan’s determination to not dispatch the nation’s overseas minister to the G-20 gathering might forged a shadow over relations between the 2 Asian nations.
Nikkei Asia reported that Kishida, who’s more likely to go to India for 3 days from March 19, has been keen to substantiate with Modi that Tokyo and New Delhi, as this 12 months’s G-7 and G-20 presidents, will work collectively extra intently to sort out points stemming from Russia’s battle in Ukraine, the supply mentioned.
In tandem with different G-7 members, Japan has been bolstering financial sanctions on Russia. But India has abstained from implementing punitive measures in opposition to Russia.
India has additionally emerged as a key nation of the “Global South,” a time period that collectively refers to growing international locations in areas equivalent to Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Nikkei Asia reported that Kishida has been eager to deepen ties with such international locations to pave the way in which for the success of the G-7 in-person summit scheduled for May in Japan’s western metropolis of Hiroshima, which was devastated by a U.S. atomic bomb in World War II, the supply mentioned.
During the envisioned assembly, Kishida is predicted to ask Modi to take part within the G-7 summit, the supply added.
Along with the G-7, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, plus the European Union, the G-20 additionally contains Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea and Turkey. (ANI)