{"id":317301,"date":"2019-11-30T08:47:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T08:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=317301"},"modified":"2019-11-30T08:47:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T08:47:21","slug":"inaugural-meeting-of-india-japan-foreign-and-defence-ministerial-dialogue-held-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/inaugural-meeting-of-india-japan-foreign-and-defence-ministerial-dialogue-held-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural meeting of India &#8211; Japan Foreign and Defence Ministerial dialogue held today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-317302 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/inaugral-meeting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/inaugral-meeting.jpg 775w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/inaugral-meeting-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/inaugral-meeting-768x459.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/inaugral-meeting-696x416.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/inaugral-meeting-703x420.jpg 703w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/>The inaugural meeting of India-Japan Foreign and Defence Ministerial Dialogue (2+2) was held today. This meeting was held in pursuance of the decision taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe, to institute a Foreign and Defence Ministerial Dialogue for further deepening bilateral security and defence cooperation\u00a0during the 13th India-Japan Annual Summit held in Japan in October 2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar headed the Indian delegation for 2+2, while the Japanese delegation was led by Foreign Affairs Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Minister of Defence Taro Kono.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 2+2 meeting provided an opportunity for the two sides to review the status of and exchange further views on strengthening defence and security cooperation between India and Japan so as to provide greater depth to the \u2018India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The two sides also exchanged views on the situation in the Indo-Pacific region and their respective efforts under\u00a0India\u2019s \u2018Act East Policy\u2019 and Japan\u2019s \u2018Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision\u2019 for achieving their shared objective of peace, prosperity and progress to realize a better future for the people of the two countries and the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inaugural meeting of India-Japan Foreign and Defence Ministerial Dialogue (2+2) was held today. This meeting was held in pursuance of the decision taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe, to institute a Foreign and Defence Ministerial Dialogue for further deepening bilateral security and defence cooperation\u00a0during the 13th India-Japan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":317302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317303,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317301\/revisions\/317303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/317302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}