Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar can be in Cambodia for a three-day journey beginning November 11 to characterize New Delhi on the ASEAN-India and the East Asia summits, officers stated Thursday.
Almost every week after the summits, the defence ministers of India and ASEAN can even be holding a meet, the primary such engagement between the 2 sides that are celebrating 2022 as “friendship yr” to mark 30 years of relations.
The nineteenth ASEAN-India summit is scheduled to be held on November 12, and the seventeenth East Asia summit on November 13, within the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh.
Cambodia is internet hosting the summits in its capability as the present chair of the ASEAN or the Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations, a 10-member grouping additionally comprising Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam.
Addressing a particular media briefing in New Delhi, Saurabh Kumar, Secretary (East) within the Ministry of Exterior Affairs, stated on the summits, leaders of the 2 sides will “take inventory of the progress made and alternate views on the longer term course of our ties and the connection within the coming decade.”
Describing ASEAN as “central” to India’s Act East coverage and its wider imaginative and prescient of the Indo-Pacific, Kumar stated: “Different scheduled actions embrace the primary ASEAN-India defence ministers assembly, (to be held) after the ADMM (ASEAN Defence Ministers Assembly) plus, scheduled to be held on November 20, and the maiden ASEAN India maritime train which can be held within the first quarter of subsequent yr.”