"I am really very optimistic (for the future of QUAD)...Every meeting of the QUAD is depending the agenda and gives us issues to work on. There are many more ideas about where we are going. This new way of working as flexible, open-minded is the way how the future of important relationships
"Japan is a natural partnership in this modernising India. Japan has truly unleashed the revolution in India. The Suzuki revolution! The second revolution was the metro revolution. The third revolution is the high-speed rail in making. The fourth revolution is in critical and emerging tec
Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar on Thursday held delegation level talks with Japanese counterpart Yoshimasa Hayashi and said that the strategic dialogue will chart the way for Special Strategic and Global Partnership between the two nations.
PM Kishida will leave next week on the first multicountry trip to Africa by a Japanese leader since 2014. His four stops - Egypt, Ghana, Kenya and Mozambique - are all part of the Global South, a loosely defined collection of over 100 developing nations.
Taking to Twitter, Blinken said, "Great meeting with my friend @MofaJapan_en Foreign Minister Hayashi as Japan leads the @G7 in 2023. We stand united with Japan and our G7 partners to promote peace, security, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region and around the world."
The statement said, "There can be no impunity for war crimes and other atrocities such as Russia's attacks against civilians and critical civilian infrastructure."
While addressing the reporters following the meeting with China's Qin gang, Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said that he sought consular access to the Japanese citizen and urged China to provide transparency in the judicial process.
The meeting of Ashwini Vaishnaw with Japanese digital minister was held only a few days before the India visit of Prime Minister of Japan, Kishida Fumio.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida plans to visit India later this month for talks with his counterpart Narendra Modi, a government source said on Friday, even as Tokyo holds the presidency of the Group of Seven nations this year, the Nikkei Asia reported.
"On Quad meeting, this year India is the host and Australia will be the host for the summit meeting. The Four Quad ministers met face to face and had very frank discussions on the current international situations and on the future directions on the quad", said Okano.