New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a telephonic dialog with Prime Minister of Japan SUGA Yoshihide in a transfer that might add constructive momentum to the ties between the 2 nations.
PM Modi prolonged an invite to PM Suga to go to India on the earliest for the annual bilateral summit.
Taking to Twitter, PM Modi wrote, “Had a fruitful conversation with PM Suga Yoshihide on the progress of India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership. We exchanged views on contemporary global challenges and agreed to further enhance our cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region.”
Had a fruitful dialog with PM Suga Yoshihide on the progress of India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership.
We exchanged views on up to date world challenges and agreed to additional improve our cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region. @sugawitter— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) March 9, 2021
The two leaders expressed satisfaction on the constructive momentum in the India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership in the previous couple of years, guided by mutual belief and shared values, a press launch learn.
They appreciated that bilateral exchanges have been maintained over the past yr regardless of the COVID-19 pandemic. They additionally welcomed the latest signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation on Specified Skilled Workers (SSW) and regarded ahead to its early implementation.
The launch acknowledged that PM Modi termed the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (MAHSR) undertaking as a shining instance of India-Japan bilateral strategic partnership and expressed his dedication to its profitable implementation.
Further, the 2 leaders exchanged views on regional and world problems with mutual curiosity and concurred that the partnership between the 2 international locations may play a pivotal position in addressing frequent challenges.
The press assertion claimed that the 2 leaders emphasised that their engagement with like-minded international locations akin to Australia and the US in the type of Quad consultations holds worth and agreed that these helpful discussions should proceed.
The two leaders famous that the seventieth anniversary of firm of diplomatic relations between the 2 international locations would fall in 2022 and agreed that this occasion be celebrated in a befitting method.