Aus PM Albanese Wanting Ahead to PM Modi’s Go to, Goals to Enhance Ties, Set Indo-Pacific AgendaUpdated 6 hours in the past

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese mentioned he’s wanting ahead to welcoming Prime Minister Narendra Modi forward of his two-day go to to Australia.

The Australian authorities in a press launch mentioned that PM Modi’s two-day go to to Australia builds on the Australia-India Annual Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi in March and discussions on the G7 Summit and Quad Leaders’ assembly in Hiroshima over the weekend.

“I’m honoured to host Prime Minister Modi for an official go to to Australia, after receiving a particularly heat welcome in India earlier this yr,” his Australian counterpart Albanese mentioned, based on the discharge shared by the Australian authorities.

The federal government mentioned that Modi and Albanese will focus on issues associated to commerce and funding and discover methods to spice up commerce between New Delhi and Canberra via a Complete Financial Cooperation Settlement.

The leaders will even deal with boosting folks to folks hyperlinks, renewable power. Measures to bolster defence and safety cooperation will even be mentioned.

Points associated to maritime safety and tips on how to construct a secure, safe and affluent Indo-Pacific will even be mentioned between each ministers.

“Australia and India share a dedication to a secure, safe and affluent Indo-Pacific. Collectively we’ve an vital function to play in supporting this imaginative and prescient,” Albanese mentioned.

The press launch additionally mentioned that PM Modi and Australian enterprise leaders will even meet and focus on methods to drive Australia’s rising commerce and funding relationship with India.

Australian enterprise leaders will even focus on tips on how to take ahead alternatives from the Australia-India CEO Discussion board held in Mumbai in March.

Albanese and Modi will even attend a neighborhood occasion in Sydney to have fun Australia’s dynamic and various Indian diaspora which the Australian authorities described as ‘a core a part of our multicultural neighborhood’.

“As buddies and companions, the connection between our nations has by no means been nearer. I look ahead to celebrating Australia’s vibrant Indian neighborhood with Prime Minister Modi in Sydney,” Albanese additional added.

That is the primary time in nearly a decade that PM Modi is visiting Australia. He final visited Australia in 2014.

The Australian authorities mentioned that Albanese can also be wanting ahead to visiting India in September for the G20 Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi.