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Australian FM to use five-day visit to enhance ties with India |
Australian Foreign Minister
Stephen Smith will undertake a five-day visit of India from October 12 to October
16. In a statement released ahead of his visit, Smith said that this would be
his second visit to India as Foreign Minister and that he would staying in New
Delhi and Mumbai. "My visit to India will be the ninth visit by an Australian
Minister since the beginning of 2008. In the same period, ten Indian Ministers
have made visits to Australia. In New Delhi I will conduct the sixth Australia-India
Foreign Ministers' Framework Dialogue with my Indian counterpart, Minister for
External Affairs S.M. Krishna. I hosted the last Dialogue in Australia in June
2008. External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna came to Australia in August 2009
for the Pacific Islands Forum Post Forum Dialogue," said Smith in his statement.
He further said that he and Krishna would discuss advancing bilateral, regional
and international cooperation between Australia and India. "I will also discuss
our common interests and international political and economic issues with other
Indian officials in New Delhi. Australia and India, both members of the G-20,
are seeing bilateral trade and investment grow rapidly. India is now Australia's
fifth largest export market," Smith said. "Our strong people-to-people links are
increasing, with greater flows of tourists, businesspeople, and students between
our countries. Australia and India are also working more closely in the fields
of defence cooperation, counter-terrorism and non-proliferation. Cooperation is
growing in energy security, climate change and food security. I will also inspect
Commonwealth Games facilities in New Delhi," his statement added. "Australia will
continue to work hard to take India to the front rank of its international relationships.
Following meetings in New Delhi, I will travel to Mumbai, where I will meet with
the Reserve Bank of India, senior Australian and Indian business figures and deliver
an address to the Asia Society. I will also commemorate the lives lost, including
those of two Australians, during last November's shocking terrorist attacks in
Mumbai. Australia expressed its solidarity with India at the time and we will
continue to work with India and other countries to tackle terrorism and extremism,"
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