The meet was co-chaired by S Jaishankar and his Thai counterpart. (FILE)
New Delhi:
India and the 10-nation ASEAN on Saturday carried out a complete assessment of their strategic partnership in a variety of areas, together with maritime cooperation, and adopted a brand new five-year plan of motion to additional enhance general ties.
The 2 sides additionally exchanged views on necessary regional and worldwide developments and mentioned methods to strengthen cooperation to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, at an ASEAN-India digital assembly, officers mentioned.
It was co-chaired by Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Thai counterpart Don Pramudwinai. International ministers of all ASEAN member nations attend the assembly, the Ministry of Exterior Affairs mentioned.
The 10-nation Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is taken into account some of the influential groupings within the area, and India and several other different nations together with the US, China, Japan and Australia are its dialogue companions.
The assembly happened at a time when China is increasing its army aggressiveness within the South China Sea and is locked in a bitter border row with India in japanese Ladakh. It’s not instantly identified whether or not these points figured within the deliberations or not.
Plenty of ASEAN member nations are engaged in territorial disputes with Beijing within the South China Sea.
“The assembly reviewed the standing of ASEAN-India strategic partnership in a number of areas together with maritime cooperation, connectivity, schooling & capability constructing and people-to-people contacts,” the MEA mentioned.
It mentioned the assembly additionally reviewed the progress in implementation of the ASEAN-India plan of motion (2016-2020) and adopted a brand new plan of motion for the subsequent 5 years.
The plan of motion gives for deepening cooperation in an array of areas together with commerce, funding and people-to-people contact.
“The assembly additionally reviewed the preparations for the upcoming 17th ASEAN-India summit and likewise the progress within the implementation of key selections of the leaders of ASEAN member states and India arrived on the 16th ASEAN-India Summit held in Bangkok in November 2019 and the earlier summits,” the MEA mentioned.
It mentioned the ministers mentioned methods to strengthen cooperation to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and exchanged views on necessary regional and worldwide developments.
The ties between India and ASEAN have been on an upswing.
The ASEAN area together with India collectively contains a mixed inhabitants of 1.85 billion folks, which is one-fourth of the worldwide inhabitants, and their mixed GDP has been estimated at over USD 3.eight trillion.
Funding from ASEAN to Indian has been over USD 70 billion within the final 17 years accounting for greater than 17 per cent of India”s complete FDI.
ASEAN member nations are Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia.
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