Question : India-Vietnam has recently agreed to strengthen Indo-Pacific partnership.This is the outcome of which meeting ?
(a) 17th Meeting of the India-Vietnam Joint Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation
(b) 16th Meeting of the India-Vietnam Joint Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation
(c) 15th Meeting of the India-Vietnam Joint Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation
(d) 14th Meeting of the India-Vietnam Joint Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation
Answer (a)
Related facts
- India and its key SE Asian partner Vietnam on Tuesday(25 August 2020) decided to explore closer cooperation in emerging areas — civil nuclear energy, space, marine sciences and new technologies and decided to expand their Indo-Pacific partnership.
- India and Vietnam agreed to enhance their bilateral cooperation in line with India’s Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI) and the ASEAN’s Outlook on Indo-Pacific to achieve shared security, prosperity and growth for all in the region.
- India invited Vietnam to collaborate on one of the seven pillars of the IPOI. This is significant in the backdrop of Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific region including South China Sea region.
- The outcomes were result of the 17th Meeting of the India-Vietnam Joint Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation co-chaired by Dr. S. Jaishankar and Pham Binh Minh, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Vietnam.
- On the occasion the two sides signed MoU for “cooperation between Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Service (SSIFS), New Delhi and Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, Hanoi” and “MoU between National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi and Scientific Research Institute of Sea and Islands, Hanoi” were also signed on the margins of the Joint Commission Meeting.
By — Pankaj Pandey.