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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrived in New Delhi on Monday morning to explore ways to boost bilateral ties in a range of areas, including defence and security, trade and investment, and high technologies.
#WATCH | Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida hold delegation-level talks at Hyderabad House in Delhi
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Kishida met for the bilateral talks at Hyderabad house. The Japanese prime minister is expected to unveil his plan for a “free and open Indo-Pacific” with a focus on India’s increasingly significant role for the region during the visit.
#WATCH | Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met PM Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House in Delhi
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The evolving situation in the Indo-Pacific in the backdrop of China’s rising military assertiveness is also likely to figure in the wide-ranging talks between Modi and Kishida. The Japanese prime minister’s visit is expected to last around 27 hours.
He is expected to unveil his ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific Plan for Peace’ during a lecture at a leading think-tank in the afternoon.
Japanese PM Kishida lays wreath at Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial in Rajghat
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The plan is expected to highlight India’s significance for the Indo-Pacific. Delivering the prestigious Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore in June last year, Kishida said he would lay out the plan for Indo-Pacific next spring.
“I will lay out a ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific Plan for Peace’ by next spring which will strengthen Japan’s efforts to further promote the vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific, with an emphasis on providing patrol vessels and enhancing maritime law enforcement capabilities, as well as cyber security, digital and green initiatives, and economic security,” he had said.
