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As China influence grows, India,

Vietnam to boost Indo-Pacific
ties
Narendra Modi described Vietnam as an important partner in India's Indo-
Pacific vision as well as for its Act East policy, and said that peace, stability
and prosperity in the region is the common goal of both sides.

By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: December 22, 2020 3:18:59 am
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a virtual bilateral summit with his Vietnamese counterpart
Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Monday. (PTI)

India and Vietnam on Monday agreed to boost practical cooperation in the Indo-
Pacific in the backdrop of increasing concerns over rising Chinese belligerence in
the region. They also inked seven agreements to expand bilateral ties in defence,
nuclear energy and several other sectors.

At a virtual summit with his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi described Vietnam as an important partner in India’s Indo-
Pacific vision as well as for its Act East policy, and said that peace, stability and
prosperity in the region is the common goal of both sides.

In the wake of growing belligerence by China in the South China Sea region, the two
leaders specifically reaffirmed the importance of maintaining freedom of
navigation and overflight in the South China Sea, while pursuing peaceful
resolution of disputes in accordance with international law without resorting to
“threat or use of force”.

Secretary (East), Ministry of External Affairs, Riva Ganguly Das told the media that
there was a strong convergence of views between the two leaders in promoting
coordination to combat terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, including
cross-border terrorism, terror-financing networks and safe havens.

In his initial remarks at the summit, Modi said India looks at ties with Vietnam with
a long-term and strategic perspective, and that cooperation between the two
countries can contribute to maintaining peace and stability in the region.

A document, titled ‘India-Vietnam Joint Vision for Peace, Prosperity and People’,
released after the summit, said the two sides will step up military-to-military
exchanges, training and capacity building programmes across the three services
and coast guards, as it was agreed that enhanced bilateral defence and security
partnership would be an important factor of stability in the Indo-Pacific region.

Prime Minister Modi stressed that the Code of Conduct negotiations on the South
China Sea should not prejudice the interest of other countries in the region, Das
said. She said Modi also invited Vietnamese companies to invest in India and
highlighted the urgent need for long-overdue review of ASEAN-India Trade in
Goods Agreement as a concrete step towards revitalising economic engagement
between the two countries as well as the larger ASEAN (Association of Southeast
Asian Nations) region.

In reference to South China Sea, the vision document said both leaders also
underscored the importance of non-militarisation and self-restraint in conduct of
all activities by claimants and all other states, and avoidance of actions that could
further complicate the situation or escalate disputes affecting peace and stability.

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She said both leaders also spoke of the importance of promoting a rules-based
order in the region including by upholding international law, especially the
UNCLOS (UN Convention on the Law of the Sea), adding that they affirmed that a
peaceful, stable, secure, free, open, inclusive and rules-based region is in the
common interest of all countries.

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