India and Japan Agreed to Establish India-Japan-United States Trilateral Dialogue

Indian foreign secretary Nirupama Rao visited Japan on 8-9 April 2011. During her visit, India and Japan on 8 April 2011 agreed to establish an India-Japan-United States trilateral dialogue on regional and global issues of shared interest. These consultations agreed to earlier by the USA will be conducted by the foreign ministers of the three countries. India and Japan also agreed that the new Ministerial-level Economic Dialogue, announced by the Prime Ministers at their Annual Summit in Tokyo in October 2010, will be led by the Foreign Ministers of the two countries. The first meeting of the Dialogue will take place later this year. 

Foreign Secretary’s wide-ranging consultations in Tokyo have provided a momentum to the India-Japan Strategic and Global Partnership.