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INDIA’S Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Japan on November 11 and 12 for the annual Indo Japan Summit. Apart from the thrust on civil nuclear cooperation, the two sides will explore ways to boost trade in high technology areas, security and infrastructure.
It was at the last summit in December, that the two sides had reached a basic agreement on a civil nuclear pact.
Further strengthening ties with Japan and giving fillip to India’s Act East policy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Japan on November 11-12 for the annual summit meet.
Prime Minister Modi will also have an audience with the Emperor of Japan.
The annual summit meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could see a civil nuclear cooperation pact being inked.
There are very high expectations from the meeting as India believe it will be an occasion for the two leaders to have “in- depth exchanges on bilateral, regional and global issues of mutual interest to further deepen the broad-based and action- oriented partnership between India and Japan.”
Though nuclear cooperation is not the only area where the two nations will realize active synergies.
Ties in trade, including in high technology area, security and infrastructure will also get a boost during the meet.
During their last summit in December, the two sides had reached a basic agreement on the pact and decided that the two sides will continue to discuss the international civil nuclear cooperation framework with respect to India.
A pact will pave the way for Japan to export nuclear power plant technology India. On security and defence front, Japan is likely to emphasize on the need to strengthen bilateral coordination in maritime security.
The two countries already have a maritime trilateral with the US.