ASEAN stays a pivotal commerce associate for India, accounting for roughly 11 per cent of India’s international commerce, the federal government has mentioned.
Within the fiscal yr 2023-24, bilateral commerce between India and ASEAN reached $121 billion, this was conveyed on the eighth assembly of the AITIGA Joint Committee (JC) to overview the ASEAN-India Commerce in Items Settlement (AITIGA) within the nationwide capital from April 7-11.
The assembly was co-chaired by Rajesh Agrawal, Further Secretary, Division of Commerce, and Deputy Co-Chair Dr. Sugumari S. Shanmugam Senior Director Ministry of Funding, Commerce and Business, Malaysia.
The assembly noticed participation from delegates representing ASEAN international locations, together with Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, in line with an announcement by Ministry of Commerce and Business.
The committee’s main goal was to advance the continuing overview of the AITIGA, aiming to modernise the settlement to be simpler, user-friendly, and conducive to commerce.
5 out of eight sub-committees (SCs) underneath the AITIGA JC additionally carried out hybrid conferences on the margins of the eighth AITIGA JC.
The following AITIGA JC assembly is scheduled for June 2025 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, persevering with the collaborative efforts to reinforce ASEAN-India financial integration, mentioned the ministry.
Just lately, India and Thailand mentioned they’ll work on strengthening the present mechanisms of defence cooperation, in addition to to advertise additional collaboration between the defence sectors of the 2 international locations, with explicit emphasis on defence expertise, defence trade, analysis, coaching, exchanges, workouts and capability constructing together with by establishing applicable mechanisms.
The Joint Declaration on the institution of India-Thailand Strategic Partnership, issued following discussions between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Thai counterpart Paetongtarn Shinawatra, particulars how the Strategic Partnership is predicated on mutual dedication to strengthen bilateral relations for the persevering with peace, stability and prosperity of the 2 international locations and their respective areas.
The event marks a brand new chapter of enhanced partnership for realising the complete potential of cooperation between the 2 international locations.
“In declaring this Strategic Partnership, the 2 leaders reaffirmed their shared pursuits in a free, open, clear, rules-based, inclusive, affluent and resilient Indo-Pacific area and reiterated their robust assist for ASEAN Centrality,” the Joint Declaration acknowledged.
