PM Narendra Modi holds talks with visiting Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday held “productive” talks along with his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida on a variety of points together with methods to additional enhance bilateral financial and cultural ties.

Kishida, accompanied by a high-level delegation, arrived right here at round 3:40 pm on his first go to to India as the top of the Japanese authorities.

“Advancing friendship with Japan. Prime Ministers @narendramodi and @kishida230 held productive talks in New Delhi. Both leaders discussed ways to boost economic and cultural linkages between the two countries,” Modi’s workplace tweeted.

External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi stated the agenda of the summit talks between Modi and Kishida included multifaceted bilateral ties in addition to regional and international problems with mutual curiosity.

“PM @narendramodi welcomed Japan’s PM @kishida230 for the 14th India-Japan Annual Summit. Discussions on our multifaceted bilateral ties, regional & global issues of mutual interest on the agenda,” he tweeted.

According to a media advisory issued by the exterior affairs ministry, the Japanese prime minister is scheduled to depart from India at 8 am on Sunday.

Kishida is travelling to Cambodia after concluding his India go to.

Before leaving for India, Kishida stated Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is unacceptable and such actions ought to by no means be allowed within the Indo-Pacific area.

The Japanese prime minister stated he’ll trade views on the state of affairs in Ukraine with leaders of India and Cambodia.

Prime Minister Modi had spoken to PM Kishida on cellphone in October 2021 quickly after he assumed workplace.

Both sides expressed a want to additional strengthen the particular strategic and international partnership.

This 12 months additionally marks the seventieth anniversary of the institution of diplomatic relations between the 2 nations.

The annual summit between Prime Minister Modi and his then Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe was cancelled in December 2019 in Guwahati within the wake of huge protests rocking the Assam capital over the amended citizenship regulation.

The summit couldn’t be held in 2020 in addition to in 2021 primarily as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.