Modi meets Shinzo Abe in Bangkok, leaders welcome 'increasing economic engagement' between India, Japan
Bangkok/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, on the sidelines of India-ASEAN and East Asia Summit 2019, here on Monday and both the leaders welcomed the "increasing economic engagement" between India and Japan.
The leaders also reviewed the progress on Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail project and reaffirmed their commitment to advance mutual efforts to facilitate the smooth implementation of the project.
This is the third time the two leaders have met with each other in the last about four months, and their previous meeting was in Vladivostok in Sept 2019.
The Prime Minister congratulated Prime Minister Abe on the recent coronation of the Emperor of Japan.
Modi said that he eagerly looked forward to welcoming Prime Minister Abe in India next month for India-Japan Annual Summit. He also said that he was convinced of the success of the forthcoming Annual Summit in further deepening the India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership.
The leaders welcomed that the inaugural 2+2 Foreign and Defence Ministerial Dialogue will take place later this month in India. They agreed that the dialogue will help provide impetus to the bilateral security and defence cooperation between the two sides.
The two Prime Ministers also reaffirmed their commitment towards a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific region based on a rules-based order. They agreed to further strengthen the bilateral cooperation, including in third countries, for achieving the shared objective of peace, prosperity and progress of the Indo-Pacific region.
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