India shares Japan’s vision for a free, open and rules-based Indo-Pacific, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said here on Thursday and stressed that both the countries must continue to expand the scope of their bilateral cooperation.
This message was conveyed by him during a meeting with Japan’s Vice Minister of Defence for International Affairs Oka Masami. He is currently on a visit to India primarily to attend the seventh Defence Policy Dialogue.
The dialogue took place on Wednesday over two weeks after Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited India during which he described the country as an “indispensable partner” of Japan to achieve the ambitious goal of peace, prosperity and stability in the Indo-Pacific region.