Kyoto: India and Japan are set to intensify defence cooperation with the two sides likely to launch a security consultative framework involving their foreign and defence ministers. The two countries are also expected to sign an agreement in the field of rare earth materials after PM Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe hold a summit in Tokyo on Monday.
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Discussions are also expected to focus on civil nuclear cooperation and help by Japan in improving India’s infrastructure, particularly the railways, and cleaning of river Ganga. In the summit meeting, the two prime ministers are likely to agree to launch a security consultative framework involving the two countries’ foreign and defence ministers, Japanese news agency Kyodo reported quoting Japanese foreign ministry officials.
Calling Japan and India “two major maritime democracies in Asia,” Japanese officials said Mr Abe and Mr Modi are expected to affirm cooperation in ensuring a “peaceful and stable maritime order” in an apparent effort to curb Beijing’s rising activity in the East and South China seas and the Indian Ocean.
