Japanese PM to visit India on March 19-20 for India-Japan summit
18 Mar 2022 10:50:54
New Delhi, March 18: At invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of Japan, Kishida Fumio, will be undertaking an official visit to New Delhi from 19-20 March 2022 for the 14th India-Japan Annual Summit. The Summit would be the first meeting of the two leaders.
The situation in Ukraine is also likely to figure in the Modi-Kishida talks.
The annual summit between Prime Minister Modi and his then Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe was cancelled in December 2019 in Guwahati in the wake of massive protests rocking the Assam capital over the amended citizenship law.
Japan is set to hold an in-person summit of Quad leaders this year and PM Modi is expected to attend it. The four leaders met virtually for the Quad summit wherein the leaders batted for a safer Indo-Pacific region amid the rising aggression of China.
In a veiled attack on China, the leaders of the Quad echoed a unified position condemning "unilateral changes to the status quo" in the Indo-Pacific region, Japanese PM Fumio Kishida had said.
The previous India-Japan Annual Summit took place in Tokyo in October 2018. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi informed about the said the 2-day visit to India beginning Saturday for the 14th India-Japan summit.
India & Japan have multi-faceted cooperation within the ambit of their ‘Special Strategic and Global Partnership’. The Summit will provide an opportunity for both sides to review & strengthen the bilateral cooperation in diverse areas and exchange views on regional & global issues of mutual interest so as to advance their Partnership for peace, stability and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond.
The situation in Ukraine is also likely to figure in the Modi-Kishida talks.
The annual summit between Prime Minister Modi and his then Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe was cancelled in December 2019 in Guwahati in the wake of massive protests rocking the Assam capital over the amended citizenship law.
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The summit could not be held in 2020 as well as in 2021 primarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Japan is set to hold an in-person summit of Quad leaders this year and PM Modi is expected to attend it. The four leaders met virtually for the Quad summit wherein the leaders batted for a safer Indo-Pacific region amid the rising aggression of China.
In a veiled attack on China, the leaders of the Quad echoed a unified position condemning "unilateral changes to the status quo" in the Indo-Pacific region, Japanese PM Fumio Kishida had said.