TOKYO, May 21 (Portal) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva today agreed to strengthen bilateral ties at a meeting in Hiroshima, the first meeting between the two dignitaries.
Modi and Lula, who are guests at the G-7 summit culminating in the Japanese city this Sunday, analyzed the two countries’ strategic link and explored ways to strengthen it, particularly in the areas of defense production, trade and pharmaceuticals. Agriculture, dairy and livestock, as well as biofuels and clean energy, India’s Foreign Ministry reported.
Both leaders underscored the fulfillment of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations this year and stressed the need to organize a high-level meeting of business leaders.
They also discussed the development of Asia and Latin America and agreed on the importance of continued cooperation in multilateral platforms and the need for reform of multilateral institutions.
According to diplomatic sources, the Indian prime minister hopes to host the Brazilian president at the G-20 summit in September this year.
Earlier, Modi received his British counterpart Rishi Sunak at another of his bilateral meetings at the G-7 intergovernmental forum.
The parties reviewed bilateral strategic ties, including taking stock of progress in India-Britain Free Trade Agreement negotiations, and agreed to deepen cooperation in trade and investment, science and technology, higher education and people-to-people ties.
They also discussed India’s current G-20 presidency, and Modi reiterated his invitation to the organization’s upcoming summit to his British counterpart.
In addition, the Indian Prime Minister, together with the participants of the event, visited the Peace Memorial Museum and signed the visitors’ book at the shrine commemorating the victims of the US atomic bombing of the Japanese population of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9. 1945