Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit Japan from May 27-29, for the annual India-Japan Prime Ministers’ meeting. He will be accompanied by Indian National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon and other senior officials.
During this three day visit, Singh will meet his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, and review bilateral ties. They will also discuss ways to boost cooperation in areas of defence, economy and energy.
“It will be my effort to use this visit to strengthen our strategic and global partnership, which also includes trying to reach an agreement with regard to civil nuclear energy cooperation,” Singh told Japanese reporters in an interview ahead of his visit.
This visit is the postponed annual India-Japan Prime Ministers’ meeting, which was originally scheduled for November 2012. It was re-scheduled due to early elections in Japan in December last year.
India and Japan share warm relations. In 2011, both countries signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement. In 2011-12, the India-Japan bilateral trade reached $18.43 billion, a 34% increase over the bilateral trade of 2010-11.