New Delhi: India and Australia on Saturday held the Prime Foreign Dialogue and Minister’s Defense to increase the overall strategic bond in the background of a geopolitical flux phase that disturbed in the region.
The Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh held a ‘two-plus-two’ conversation here with their Australian partners Marise Payne and Peter Dutton.
Jaisankar describes direct talk as “productive”.
“Meeting 2+ 2 productive today with Australia,” he tweeted.
The conversation occurred at a global focus time was in the situation in Afghanistan after the expression by the Taliban, and the problem was responsible in the deliberation.
“We meet at a very important moment when, together with a pandemic, we have a geographical-political environment that is in fast flux and we must, bilaterally and with other-minded partners, responding adequately to maintain our national interests too.
Ensure the region Peaceful, stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific, “Jaishankar said in his opening remarks on dialogue.
Minister of External Affairs said India has a “two-plus-two ‘format of various countries with countries.” I also believe that developments in Afghanistan will be an important subject of discussion between us today, “Jaishankar said.” This meeting, of course, gave us the opportunity to review and advance a comprehensive strategic partnership when we prepared another meeting between our main ministers later this month in the United States, “he said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to the US later.
This month To attend a quad leader summit.
People who are familiar with ‘two-plus-two’ talks say both parties hold a broad deliberation of all the main problems of strategic interests including the situation in China which grows muscle flexures in the region.
Overall focus is to increase strategic bonds, they said dialogue ‘two-plus-two’.
During the Mer talk Eka, the two defense ministers discussed a fragile security situation in Afghanistan and “their general concern” relating to the possibility of the spread of terrorism from the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
The talk of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense occurred amid new efforts by Quad member countries to expand cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region.
Besides India and Australia, Quad consists of US and Japan.
At an event organized by the Observer Research Organization, Payne on Friday said Quad had evolved “quickly” and very “effective” and praised India to take strong leadership roles in the region.
Speaking of “significant challenges” facing Indo-Pacific, Australian Foreign Minister said Canberra was looking for an area where the rights of large and small countries were respected and no “single dominant power” determined the results for others.
Dialogue between foreign ministers and defense is institutionalized as part of the overall goal to expand strategic cooperation between the two countries.
India has a framework for talks with several countries including the US and Japan.
Defense and military cooperation between India and Australia is up in recent years.
In June of last year, India and Australia improved their relationship with a comprehensive strategic partnership and signed an important agreement for reciprocal access to military bases for logistical support during the online summit between Modi and Australian partners Scott Morrison.
The Australian Navy is part of the recent Malabar Navy Exercise which also features the Indian, US and Japanese Navy.