New Delhi, July 11: Taking the ‘Special Strategic Partnership’ to new height, India and South Korea on Tuesday agreed to explore the tripartite partnership for development in third countries including “capacity building programmes” in countries like war-ravaged Afghanistan.
Senior officials in the Ministry of External Affairs said the South Korean President is also keen on a bigger role in the Korean Peninsula, including on nonproliferation issues, and for ‘peace and stability’ in the region.
In a Vision Statement issued at the end of delegation-level talks led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Korean President Moon Jae-in, both sides said: “We resolved to work together to add new substance and impetus to bilateral cooperation in all areas of engagement so as to contribute to regional and global peace and prosperity”.
“In this context, we agreed to explore tripartite partnership for development in third countries, beginning with capacity building programmes in Afghanistan.”
“Underlining the pivotal importance of promoting peace and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in our regions for the larger benefit of all humanity, we welcomed the recent positive developments facilitated by Korea including the historic inter-Korean summits, as well as the U.S.- DPRK (North Korea) summit. We hope that these developments will contribute to complete denuclearization as well as lasting peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula,” the vision statement said.
“We pledged to work together to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and delivery systems, particularly to terrorists and non-state actors,” it said.
Modi, Moon agree to work on rebuilding Afghanistan
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