Narendra Modi’s Prime Ministerial Visits
1. Uzbekistan (6 July)
President – Islam
Karimov
PM – Shavkat Mirjyoyev
Capital – Tashkent
Currency – Uzbekistan
Som
Agreements
Signed (7):
1. Economic and Strategic ties : Enhance
strategic, economic and energy ties along with reviewing key regional issues
including the situation in Afghanistan.
2. Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism : To
intensify security cooperation and exchanges for combating terrorism, promoting
regional integration and advancing stability in the region.
3. Defence and cyber security : Enhance
cooperation in the fields of defence and cyber security.
4. Uranium supply contract: Implement the
contract which was signed in 2014 for supply of 2,000 metric tonnes of the
Uranium from mineral rich Uzbekistan to India.
5. Strengthening cooperation : In the areas
of information technology, agriculture and energy.
6. International North South Transport
Corridor (INSTC): India asked Uzbekistan to be part of INSTC similar to
Ashgabat Agreement which is s a transit pact between Uzbekistan, Iran,
Turkmenistan and Oman established in 2011.
7. It should be noted that INSTC is a ship,
road and rail route for moving freight between India, Iran, Russia, Europe and
Central Asia.
Narendra
Modi’s Prime Ministerial Visits:
2. Kazakhstan (7th
July):
President : Nursultan
Nazarbayev
PM : Karim Massimov
Capital : Astana
Currency : Tenge
Agreements
Signed (5) :
1. Agreement on Defence and Military : Both
nations will form joint working group (JWG) on counter terrorism, defence
training, exercise and production of defence equipment.
2. MoU on Cooperation on Physical Cultural
and Sports : It was signed between India’s Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
and Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Culture and Sports.
3. MoU on Technical Cooperation in the field
of Railways : It was signed between India’s Ministry of Railways and Kazakhstan
Temir Zholy.
4. Agreement on Transfer of Sentenced Persons
: It will facilitate swapping to prisoners from both countries to serve their
remaining sentence in home country.
5. Agreement on supply of Uranium to India :
Kazakhstan the world’s largest producer of uranium will supply a total of 5,000
tonnes of the natural uranium to India during the 2015-19.
# Apart from signing
these agreements, India has also shown interest in :
1. Fertilizer sector in Kazakhstan due
to abundance availability of Natural Gas.
2. Hydro carbon sectors of Kazakhstan for
drilling and production of crude oil
Narendra
Modi’s Prime Ministerial Visit:
3. Turkmenistan (10-11
July)
President : Gurbanguly
Berdimuhamedow
PM : Akja Nurberdiyewa
Capital : Ashgabat
Currency : Turkmen New
Manat
Agreements
Signed (7) :
1. MoU on Supply of Chemical Products : It
was signed between the India’s ‘Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers
Limited’ and the Turkmenistan’s Turkmenhimiya’.
2. MoU Foreign Service Institutes of both
nations: It was signed between Foreign Service Institute of the Ministry of
External Affairs of India and Institute of International Relations of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.
3. Agreement on Cooperation in the field of
Sports: It was signed between Union Ministry of Youth Affairs And Sports of
India and State Committee for Sport of Turkmenistan.
4. Programme of Cooperation In Science And
Technology: It was signed between both governments for the period of two years
viz. 2015-2017.
5. MoU on Cooperation in Yoga and Traditional
Medicine: It was signed between respective entities of both governments.
6. MoU on Cooperation in the Field Of
Tourism: It was signed between respective entities of both governments.
7. Agreement in the field of Defence: It was
signed between respective entities of both governments.
Narendra
Modi’s Prime Ministerial Visit:
4. Tajikistan (12 July):
President : Emomalli
Rahmon
PM : Kokhir Rasulzoda
Capital : Dushanbe
Currency : Somni
Agreements
Signed (2) :
1. Programme of Cooperation (POC) in the
field of Culture : It was signed between Ministries of Culture of India and
Tajikistan for the years 2016-18. It envisages cooperation in the field of
culture between both nations through exchange of expertise for protection,
preservation and promotion of cultural heritage. It also seeks to exchange of
information and experts and organization of cultural days for greater cultural
understanding between the countries.
2. Exchange of Note Verbale (NV) on setting
up of Computer Labs : It conveys the intention of India to set up computer labs
in 37 schools in Tajikistan. With this initiative India’s seeks to support
Tajikistan in human resource and skill development efforts.
#Besides signing these pacts, both leaders Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and his counterpart Emomali Rahmon, President of Tajikistan
agreed to promote the International North South transport corridor (INSTC).
Both nations also pledged to further deepen their cooperation to fight the
menace of radical terrorism and agreed to step up defence ties besides boosting
trade and investment
Narendra
Modi’s Prime Ministerial Visit:
5. Kyrgyzstan (12 July):
President : Almazbek
Atambayev
PM : Temir Sariyev
Capital : Bishkek
Currency : Som
Agreements
Signed (4) :
1. Agreement on Defence Cooperation: It was
signed to deepen cooperation between both countries in matters relating to
security, defence, military education and training.
. It also covers provisions to conduct of
joint military exercises, exchange of military instructors, exchange of
experience and information and observers etc.
2. MoU and Cooperation in the field of
Elections: It was signed to deepen cooperation in matters relating to
legislation on elections and referendums. It also covered rights of elections
process stakeholders, modern systems and technologies as well as other issues
of election administration.
3. MoU on cooperation in the sphere of
Standards: Seeks to strengthen and enhance technical cooperation in the fields
of conformity assessment, standardization and sharing of expertise on mutual
trade.
• It also aims at
exchanging necessary information and expertise in this regard between the two
parties. Signatory parties are Ministry of Economy of Kyrgyzstan and Bureau of
Indian Standards (BIS).
4. Agreement on Cooperation in Culture: To
deepen cultural cooperation between both countries in areas such as
preservation of cultural heritage, theatre, youth festivals and organisation of
folk arts.
• It also seeks to boost
cooperation in of publishing and translation of literature, culture, sports and
physical exchange of archival materials, geography, history etc.
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