PM Modi prone to go to Thailand for BIMSTEC Summit in April | Particulars

BIMSTEC Summit: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is anticipated to go to Thailand from April 2 to 4 to take part within the sixth BIMSTEC Summit, which might be held in Bangkok. It will mark his second go to to Thailand; his earlier go to was in 2019 when he attended the ASEAN Summits, accompanied by Exterior Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Commerce and Trade Minister Piyush Goyal.

BIMSTEC Summit 

The BIMSTEC Summit is scheduled to be held in Bangkok from April 2 to 4. Beneath the management of Thailand, the discussion board is working in direction of constructing a “Affluent, Resilient, and Open” area, known as “PRO BIMSTEC”, by the yr 2030.

This summit seeks to strengthen regional collaboration among the many seven member international locations: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, representing South and Southeast Asia.

Key outcomes of the summit will embrace the adoption of the BIMSTEC Bangkok Imaginative and prescient 2030, the Report of the Eminent Individuals’ Group on the Future Path of BIMSTEC, and the BIMSTEC Summit Declaration.

In response to the Public Relations Division of Thailand, “As chair of BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Financial Cooperation) throughout 2022-2025, Thailand goes to host the sixth BIMSTEC Summit and associated conferences, from 2 to 4 April 2025 in Bangkok.”

As per the Public Relations Division, the important thing deliverables for the upcoming summit embrace the BIMSTEC Bangkok Imaginative and prescient 2030, the Report of the Eminent Individuals’ Group on the Future Path of BIMSTEC, and the BIMSTEC Summit Declaration. The BIMSTEC area encompasses over 1.7 billion folks and has a mixed GDP of USD 4.7 trillion.

India and Thailand relations

India and Thailand have traditionally loved heat bilateral relations. 

The embassy noticed that diplomatic relations between the 2 international locations have been established in 1947, and either side celebrated the seventy fifth anniversary of this institution in 2022.

As per the Ministry of Exterior Affairs, the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Financial Cooperation (BIMSTEC) pursues cooperation amongst its member states throughout seven precedence areas, particularly Safety, together with Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime, Catastrophe Administration and Vitality; Commerce and Financial Growth; Transport Connectivity; Agriculture and Meals Safety; Science, Expertise & Innovation; Surroundings and Local weather Change; and Individuals-to-Individuals Relations.

BIMSTEC serves as a car for regional engagement for an open, peaceable, affluent and resilient Bay of Bengal area.

The efforts on this regard have strengthened cooperation amongst member states within the areas of catastrophe administration, maritime safety, coping with challenges of terrorism, drug and human trafficking, cybercrimes, local weather change, power safety, meals safety, elevated intra-regional commerce and funding, expertise and innovation, elevated folks to folks contacts by youth exchanges and cultural exchanges in addition to establishment constructing and capability constructing, in keeping with the MEA.

(With ANI inputs)

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