Hiroshima: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday held wide-ranging talks with his Vietnamese counterpart Pham Minh Trinh here and discussed expanding cooperation in areas such as trade, investment, defense and energy. The two leaders met on the sidelines of the G7 group summit in Hiroshima. The Ministry of External Affairs tweeted, “Taking relations to a new level. There was an extensive discussion between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister of Vietnam Pham Minh Chinh.
The ministry said, “The two leaders discussed enhancing cooperation in trade, investment, defence, building resilient supply chains, energy, science and technology, human resource development, culture and people-to-people ties.” Said that along with cooperation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Indo-Pacific region, regional developments were also discussed. ASEAN countries include Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
The US, India and many other countries of the world are talking about the need to make the region free and open in the backdrop of China’s growing military presence in the resource-rich Indo-Pacific. China claims almost all of the South China Sea, while Taiwan, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, and Vietnam also claim parts of it. Modi arrived in Hiroshima on Friday to attend the three sessions of the G7 summit at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
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