Expanding strategic template of a robust relationship, India-Japan tie to deal with fugitive economic offenders

Oaska, June 27: Having a deep discourse over a range of issues of mutual interest in the first ever meeting since the start of Japan’s Reiwa era, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe held talks on Thursday ahead of the two-day G20 Summit slated to take place in on Friday.

 

Further focusing on the India-Japan relation, Modi thanked Abe for his warm welcome to him and the Indian delegation visiting Japan for the G20 Summit. He also appreciated Japan’s leadership as the G20 chairman, informing ahead that President Ram Nath Kovind would participate in the coronation ceremony of Emperor Naruhito in October.

 

Arriving the Japanese city of Oaska earlier on Thursday, PM Modi discussed various aspects of India-Japan relations inviting the Japanese PM to India. “Looking forward to the visit of Japanese PM Shinzo Abe to India later this year for the annual summit, PM Modi said.

 

G20 summit that is centred around the theme of Human-Centred Future Society, will adopt a declaration where PM Modi will be meeting several world leaders, including US President Donald Trump. He will also hold a trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the summit with Russian and Chinese Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, respectively.

 

PM Abe referred specifically to PM Modi's initiative in earlier G20 meetings on the issue of fugitive economic offenders and said that G20 should deal with this problem as part of its anti-corruption measures. Both PMs would meet again tomorrow for a trilateral meeting between Japan, India and US, further briefly discussing over the Indo-Pacific initiative that all three countries are separately pursuing and discussing together. 

 

 

Focusing on the infrastructural development amidst, the duo also discussed on Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed railway as well as the convention centre in Varanasi, further holding review of progress in this regard. 

 

Besides India and the host Japan, other participants are the US, UK, European Union, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Russia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Korea, South Africa, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. India has participated in all the G20 summits held so far and will host the summit in 2022 for the first time.