New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Tuesday said “Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will travel to Japan this week to attend the next edition of the ‘2+2′ dialogue with their Japanese counterparts.”
“Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will pay an official visit to Japan for the second India-Japan 2+2 Ministerial Meeting from September 7-10,” the MEA said in a statement.
It said the two sides will further explore new initiatives to strengthen the bilateral partnership. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh began a visit to Mongolia on Monday and he will travel to Japan after concluding his three-day trip to the East Asian country.
MEA said, “During the visit, the ministers will also hold the Defence Ministerial Meeting and Foreign Ministers’ Strategic Dialogue with their counterparts, Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada and Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi respectively,”
The ‘2+2’ dialogue is taking place more than five months after Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited India for the annual India-Japan summit. At the summit in New Delhi, Kishida announced an investment target of five trillion Yen (Rs 3,20,000 crore) in India over the next five years.
India has the ‘2+2’ ministerial format of dialogue with very few countries, including the US, Japan, Australia, and Russia.
(Vinayak)