Aus-India Ties Have Never Been Closer: PM Albanese At Quad Summit
Mumbai: On the sidelines of the Quad summit in Tokyo, newly-elected Australian PM Anthony Albanese praised his country’s ties with India, claiming that they have “never been closer”.
Speaking to ANI, the Australian PM said, “Our relationship with India is a very important one and it was a great honour to meet with Prime Minister Modi.”
PM Modi congratulated Prime Minister Albanese on his election victory. The two leaders reviewed multi-faceted cooperation under the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership including trade and investment, defence manufacturing, renewable energy, green hydrogen, education, science and technology, agricultural research, sports and people-to-people ties.
The two Prime Ministers reaffirmed their desire to continue the positive momentum in bilateral relations. Prime Minister Modi extended an invitation to the Australian Prime Minister to visit India at the earliest. Bilateral discussions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi focused on Australia and India’s full strategic and economic agenda, including clean energy technology.
Taking to Twitter the Australian Prime Minister wrote, “Warmly welcomed my meeting with @narendramodi for an engaging discussion on Australia and India’s full strategic and economic agenda, including on clean energy technology. Australia-India ties have never been closer.”
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This was followed by bilateral talks between PM Modi and US President Joe Biden in Tokyo soon after holding the Quad Leaders Summit, where the Prime Minister said that the India-US partnership is a partnership of trust in the true sense. The meeting marks the continuation of their regular dialogue, most recently in virtual mode on 11 April.
PM Modi said, “We participated in a positive and fruitful Quad Summit today. The India-US partnership is truly a partnership of trust. Our common interests and values have strengthened this bond of trust between our two countries,” PM Modi said during the meeting with Biden. The Prime Minister said that India and the US share similar views on Indo-Pacific.
“We share similar views on Indo-Pacific, at the bilateral level as well as with like-minded countries to work to protect our common concerns. Our discussions today will give speed to this positive momentum,” he said.
Speaking further, PM Modi said that people-to-people ties and strong economic cooperation make the India-US partnership unique.
“Our trade and investment relations are also growing but well below our potential. I am confident that with the conclusion of the US Investment Promotion Agreement, we will see solid progress in investments between our two countries.”
This meeting comes after the fourth interaction of Quad Leaders since their first virtual meeting in March 2021, in-person Summit in Washington D.C. in September 2021 and virtual meeting in March 2022.
The Quad Summit provided an opportunity for the Leaders to exchange views about developments in the Indo-Pacific region and contemporary global issues of mutual interest. The Quad summit witnessed the launch of a new initiative for continuous collaboration in the maritime domain, space, climate change, health and cyber security.
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