India-Myanmar-Thailand Highway to be extended to Laos,Cambodia ,Vietnam
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India ready for a role in ASEAN security: Manmohan Singh - Business Today
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has declared India's intention to participate in ASEAN security , signifying the depth of its Asian outreach.
He said all countries have equal stakes in the security and prosperity of the "shared Asian neighbourhood". The scope of India's engagement with East and Southeast Asia has grown steadily in the last two decades.
"We would be happy to respond to the ASEAN request to develop the security dimensions of India's Look East Policy to strengthen the ASEAN Political Security Community Blueprint 2015," the prime minister said at the concluding session of the 11th India-ASEAN Summit. "In this context, we look forward to the workshop being hosted by Brunei Darussalam next month."
Singh also pledged India's support to an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Economic Community in 2015.
"ASEAN countries that they have led the way in cooperation and integration, not only among themselves, but also in the broader region. For India, it is an article of faith of our Look-East policy that ASEAN must remain central to the future evolution of regional mechanisms, which must be open and inclusive. We share your vision and aspirations for the region and we applaud your march towards an ASEAN Economic Community in 2015," he said.
The prime minister also emphasised the growing strategic content in India-ASEAN relations to respond to the common security challenges, which supplemented India's deepening security cooperation with ASEAN countries bilaterally.
"I am pleased that India and ASEAN have identified eight focus areas for cooperation on transnational crime and that we are in the process of formulating a work plan to combat international terrorism," Singh said. "We seek to promote not only mutually beneficial bilateral relations, but also to work institutionally with regional partners and foster a climate that is conducive to stability, security and economic development in our region."
The prime minister told the gathering that over two decades, India and ASEAN have established a comprehensive agenda of cooperation and a wide-ranging framework to pursue it. The partnership, which has been elevated to a strategic level, is on the threshold of the third decade of engagement.
And befitting the occasion, he announced that India will soon set up a separate Mission to the ASEAN in Jakarta with a full time resident ambassador. "I hope we will have your full support and cooperation in this endeavour."
India was also ready for the signature of the India-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement on Services and Investment by the end of this year and its early implementation, complimenting the agreement on goods, he said.
He welcomed efforts by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry to revitalise the ASEAN-India Business Council and to set up an ASEAN-India Trade and Investment Centre. These measures will contribute to stronger trade and investment flows between India and the ASEAN.
India-ASEAN trade stood at $76 billion last year and a target of $100 billion by 2015 and $200 billion by 2022 has been set.
The prime minister also emphasized the growing strategic content in India-ASEAN relations to respond to the common security challenges, which supplemented India's deepening security cooperation with ASEAN countries bilaterally.
"I am pleased that India and ASEAN have identified eight focus areas for cooperation on transnational crime and that we are in the process of formulating a work plan to combat international terrorism," Singh said.
Connectivity is a strategic priority, he said, adding the India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway to be completed by 2016 could be extended to Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, its further linkage with ports in ASEAN countries and its integration with models like Special Economic Zones.
"This would call for innovative financial and institutional mechanisms. I hope our ministers and officials can discuss these ideas further," he said.
Could be .....is a key word !
So that means it's still a proposal ...!!!
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NEW DELHI The proposed ambitious trilateral 3,200km highway connecting India, Myanmar and Thailand is expected to be fully operational by 2016.
India is working closely with Myanmar and Thailand to develop the tri-lateral highway its Union Minister of Commerce, Industry & Textiles Anand Sharma said.
We are half-way there and am sure that by 2015-2016, this should be fully operational, he said during a session entitled The Long-Term View at the World Economic Forum on East Asia 2013 in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.
India has already given Myanmar US$500 million in loan, part of which will be used to fund the project.
During the session, Sharma also highlighted the importance of developing high-quality infrastructure.
He stressed on the fact that sound infrastructure would help in the creation of a robust economic linkage between India, Myanmar and beyond.
India is developing Kaladan Multimodal Transit-Transport Project which will connect Mizoram to Sittwe port in Myanmar, he added.
Mizoram is one of the seven sister states listed as in Northern Eastern India, sharing borders with the states of Tripura, Assam, Manipur and with the neighboring countries of Bangladesh and Myanmar
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Good proposal. But it is first important that we are first capable of defending ourselves through being able to produce, generate and mobilize sufficient military assets that are independent off any or majority foreign reliance.
This is not possible until 2020. Which essentially means that we cannot move such an ambitious plan anywhere before 2022.
This is not possible until 2020. Which essentially means that we cannot move such an ambitious plan anywhere before 2022.
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