NEW DELHI: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday stated that India shares Japan’s imaginative and prescient for a free, open and rules-based Indo-Pacific and pressured that each the international locations should proceed to broaden the scope of their bilateral cooperation. Singh conveyed this to Japan’s Vice Minister of Defence for International Affairs Oka Masami throughout a gathering.
Oka is presently on a go to to India primarily to attend the seventh Defence Policy Dialogue. The dialogue befell on Wednesday over two weeks after Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited India throughout which he described the nation as an “indispensable partner” of Japan to attain the formidable aim of peace, prosperity and stability within the Indo-Pacific area.
In the Defence Policy Dialogue, India and Japan agreed to diversify their defence cooperation in new and rising domains like house and cyber as a part of an goal to consolidate the general strategic engagement. In the assembly with Singh, Oka reiterated Japan’s keenness to additional improve bilateral defence cooperation, together with collaboration in defence gear and expertise sector, the defence ministry stated.
Wonderful assembly with Japan’s Vice Minister of Defense, Mr Oka Masami in New Delhi.
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“Rajnath Singh conveyed that India shares Japan’s vision for a free, open, secure and rules-based Indo-Pacific and stressed that both the countries must continue to expand the scope of their bilateral cooperation,” it stated. Oka was additionally accompanied by Ambassador of Japan to India Suzuki Hiroshi, who thanked Singh for the impetus supplied by his “strong and positive” management in the direction of strengthening the bilateral defence ties, the ministry stated.
