New Delhi: Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio is set to visit India from Saturday for the 14th India-Japan Annual Summit.
Kishida will hold summit talks with Narendra Modi to review and strengthen the bilateral cooperation in diverse areas as well as exchange views on regional and global issues of mutual interest so as to advance the partnership for peace, stability and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond.
The Summit would be the first meeting of the two leaders. The previous India-Japan Annual Summit took place in Tokyo in October 2018.
External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said the Japanese PM will pay a two-day visit to India beginning today.
At the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of Japan Kishida Fumio will be undertaking an official visit to New Delhi from March 19-20 for the 14th India-Japan annual summit, Bagchi said.
The summit would be the first meeting of the two leaders. The previous India-Japan annual summit took place in Tokyo in October 2018, he said.
Bagchi said that India and Japan have multi-faceted cooperation within the ambit of their ‘Special Strategic and Global Partnership’.
Modi and Kishida are also expected to discuss Russia-Ukraine war. In 2019, PM Modi was supposed to hold talks with his then Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe. However, the summit was cancelled in the wake of massive protests in Assam’s Guwahati over the amended citizenship law.
The India-Japan annual summit could not be held in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Japan will be holding an in-person summit of Quad leaders later this this year and Prime Minister Modi is expected to attend it.