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NEW DELHI: Taking up the issue of delay in signing a civil nuclear agreement with Japan, foreign minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday told her Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida that it was time the deal was concluded.
In a bilateral meeting on the side lines of the Asean Regional Forum (ARF) meet in Myanmar's capital Naypyitaw, Swaraj also told Kishida that India wanted PM Narendra Modi's upcoming visit to Tokyo to be "substantive". Even if the agreement can't be signed during Modi's visit, India is looking for an early conclusion of negotiations.
Despite Japan being a top priority country for Modi and the warmth of his personal ties with Shinzo Abe, his Japanese counterpart, he had postponed his visit to Tokyo in the first week of July because of the then upcoming budget session of Parliament, and apparently also because the two countries were not ready for any big-ticket announcement.
In her meeting with Kishida, Swaraj emphasized on "the need to bring talks on civil nuclear agreement to their logical conclusion".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
According to sources, the two countries will review the negotiations for the civil nuclear agreement ahead of Modi's visit which is expected in the first week of September. Kishida told Swaraj that Japan is keen on ensuring a "substantive and successful" visit by Modi.
Official sources mentioned Swaraj's meeting with South Korea's foreign minister Yun Byung-se — shortly after her meeting with Kishida — in which the two countries discussed civil nuclear cooperation. South Korea competes with Japan in the field of civil nuclear technology and had expeditiously signed an agreement for cooperation with India for cooperation in the same even as India's talks with Japan have dragged for four years.
The Koreans are now keenly awaiting allotment of a site by the government for building a nuclear reactor.
In his meeting with Swaraj, Kishida, who is from Hiroshima, said he was deeply touched by Indian Parliament observing silence on August 6 for those who died in the Hiroshima bombing. The fact that Modi had also participated in it had impressed all in Japan, he told Swaraj.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Civil nuclear talks were hit badly by the Fukushima disaster in 2011 but Japan agreed to resume negotiations last year as it said it wanted to contribute to nuclear safety worldwide by sharing with the world its experience and lessons derived from the nuclear accident.
Talks though are yet to be concluded despite Japan determining that civil nuclear cooperation with India was mutually beneficial.
In a statement to TOI last year, the Japanese government said such a cooperation was significant considering such factors as the strong wish for such cooperation expressed from the Indian side even after the accident in 2011, bilateral relationship between the two countries including fortification of the Japan-India Strategic and Global Partnership, and the need for measures against climate change and global warming.
Ahead of Modi's visit, India pushes Japan for nuclear deal - The Times of India
In a bilateral meeting on the side lines of the Asean Regional Forum (ARF) meet in Myanmar's capital Naypyitaw, Swaraj also told Kishida that India wanted PM Narendra Modi's upcoming visit to Tokyo to be "substantive". Even if the agreement can't be signed during Modi's visit, India is looking for an early conclusion of negotiations.
Despite Japan being a top priority country for Modi and the warmth of his personal ties with Shinzo Abe, his Japanese counterpart, he had postponed his visit to Tokyo in the first week of July because of the then upcoming budget session of Parliament, and apparently also because the two countries were not ready for any big-ticket announcement.
In her meeting with Kishida, Swaraj emphasized on "the need to bring talks on civil nuclear agreement to their logical conclusion".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
According to sources, the two countries will review the negotiations for the civil nuclear agreement ahead of Modi's visit which is expected in the first week of September. Kishida told Swaraj that Japan is keen on ensuring a "substantive and successful" visit by Modi.
Official sources mentioned Swaraj's meeting with South Korea's foreign minister Yun Byung-se — shortly after her meeting with Kishida — in which the two countries discussed civil nuclear cooperation. South Korea competes with Japan in the field of civil nuclear technology and had expeditiously signed an agreement for cooperation with India for cooperation in the same even as India's talks with Japan have dragged for four years.
The Koreans are now keenly awaiting allotment of a site by the government for building a nuclear reactor.
In his meeting with Swaraj, Kishida, who is from Hiroshima, said he was deeply touched by Indian Parliament observing silence on August 6 for those who died in the Hiroshima bombing. The fact that Modi had also participated in it had impressed all in Japan, he told Swaraj.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Civil nuclear talks were hit badly by the Fukushima disaster in 2011 but Japan agreed to resume negotiations last year as it said it wanted to contribute to nuclear safety worldwide by sharing with the world its experience and lessons derived from the nuclear accident.
Talks though are yet to be concluded despite Japan determining that civil nuclear cooperation with India was mutually beneficial.
In a statement to TOI last year, the Japanese government said such a cooperation was significant considering such factors as the strong wish for such cooperation expressed from the Indian side even after the accident in 2011, bilateral relationship between the two countries including fortification of the Japan-India Strategic and Global Partnership, and the need for measures against climate change and global warming.
Ahead of Modi's visit, India pushes Japan for nuclear deal - The Times of India
