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PM Modi Unveils 10-Point Plan To Boost ASEAN-India Ties

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OB Bureau

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Thursday morning, began his two-day trip to Laos, where he participated in the 21st Asean-India Summit and the 19th East Asia Summit. 

At the 21st ASEAN-India Summit in Vientiane, he announced a 10-point plan aligned with the “Enhancing Connectivity and Resilience” theme. 

The 10 points included:

  • Celebrating the year 2025 as the ASEAN-India Year of Tourism, for which India would make available USD 5 million towards joint activities.
  • To celebrate a decade of Act East Policy through several people-centric activities including Youth Summit, Start-up Festival, Hackathon, Music Festival, ASEAN-India Network of Think Tanks, and Delhi Dialogue.
  • To organise the ASEAN-India Women Scientists Conclave under the ASEAN-India Science and Technology Development Fund.
  • Doubling the number of scholarships at Nalanda University and provision of new scholarships for ASEAN students at Agricultural Universities in India.
  • Review of ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement by 2025.
  • Enhancing Disaster Resilience for which India would make available USD 5 million.
  • Initiate a new Health Ministers’ track toward building Health Resilience.
  • Initiate a regular mechanism of ASEAN-India Cyber Policy Dialogue towards strengthening Digital and Cyber Resilience.
  • Workshop on Green Hydrogen.
  • Invitation to ASEAN leaders to join ‘Plant a Tree for Mother’ campaign towards building climate resilience.
OB Bureau

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