Prime Minister Narendra Modi will journey to Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on Thursday for a two-day go to to attend the twenty first ASEAN-India Summit and the nineteenth East Asia Summit, the Ministry of Exterior Affairs stated.
Sources stated Modi will doubtless meet Japan Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. This would be the first abroad journey of Ishiba, who was made Prime Minister simply final week.
“On the invitation of Sonexay Siphandone, Prime Minister of the Lao Folks’s Democratic Republic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will go to Vientiane, Lao PDR, on 10-11 October 2024,” MEA stated.
Through the go to, the Prime Minister will attend the twenty first ASEAN-India Summit and the nineteenth East Asia Summit being hosted by Laos as the present Chair of ASEAN.
The ministry stated that India is “marking a decade of the Act East Coverage this yr. Relations with ASEAN are a central pillar of the Act East Coverage and our Indo-Pacific imaginative and prescient”.
Officers stated that the ASEAN-India Summit will “evaluate progress of India-ASEAN relations via our Complete Strategic Partnership and chart the longer term path of cooperation”.
The East Asia Summit, a premier leaders-led discussion board that contributes to constructing an atmosphere of strategic belief within the area, supplies a possibility for leaders of EAS Collaborating International locations, together with India, to change views on problems with regional significance, it stated.
It additionally stated that the Prime Minister is predicted to carry bilateral conferences on the margins of the Summits.
Southeast Asian leaders gathered on Wednesday for ASEAN that may give attention to the civil warfare in Myanmar and territorial tensions within the South China Sea.
The ten member states of ASEAN — Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Brunei and Laos — will even maintain talks with different dialogue companions together with Japan, South Korea, India and Australia on matters starting from the economic system, to local weather change and power.
Myanmar despatched Overseas Ministry everlasting secretary Aung Kyaw Moe to the summit, its first high-level consultant on the summit in three years, after ASEAN barred it from sending political representatives in late 2021.
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