India and Japan pledge to further strengthen their special and global strategic partnership.

The foreign ministers of India and Japan agreed on September 22nd to strengthen cooperation in various fields, including the high-speed rail project.

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar. (Source: hindustantimes)

The meeting between Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar and the new Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa took place on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting in New York.

According to the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs , Foreign Minister Kamikawa emphasized the further development of the Japan-India Special Strategic and Global Partnership, and congratulated India on successfully hosting the G20 Summit in New Delhi.

Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa said that good cooperation had been achieved between Japan, the G7 chair, and India, the G20 chair, enabling both sides to transfer the results of the G7 to the G20.

On social media platform X, Foreign Minister Jaishankar wrote: “The two sides exchanged views on the Special Strategic and Global Partnership, and discussed regional, multilateral, and global cooperation and promoting this relationship.”

In the economic field, the Japanese and Indian foreign ministers agreed to strengthen cooperation, including steadily advancing the high-speed rail project, a flagship project between Japan and India.

Exchanging views on regional issues such as the Indo- Pacific region and Security Council reform, the two ministers also emphasized the importance of maintaining and strengthening a free and open international order based on the rule of law, and affirmed that Japan and India will continue to make further efforts to address the issues facing the international community.

Both Japan and India are members of the Quad group, along with the US and Australia, aiming to strengthen cooperation in various fields. This group is seen as a counterweight to China amid increasingly fierce US-China competition.

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