Addressing the 14th ASEAN-India summit in Vientiane, PM Modi also expressed concern over growing radicalisation and spread of extreme violence and said that India looks forward to craft a fitting response to this challenge through coordination with ASEAN countries at multiple levels.
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“In the afternoon, the president will hold a bilateral meeting with (Modi)”, the White House said in its daily guidance released to the press.
“The time has come to isolate and sanction this instigator”, Modi added.
Modi and US President Barack Obama met on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit on Thursday. “We need to target not only the terrorists but also their entire supporting ecosystem”.
“And, our strongest action should be reserved for those state actors who employ terrorism as an instruments of state policy”, he said. “Competing geo-politics, traditional and non-traditional challenges threaten peace, stability and prosperity of region”, he said at the Summit, which he was attending for the third time.
Stating that the two leaders discussed regional developments, Swarup said that “both countries shared the same perspective” on the South China Sea issue.
The Prime Minister said that India remained committed, including through membership of export control regimes, to pursuing total and verifiable elimination of weapons of mass destruction. “Our partnership with ASEAN seeks to craft a response through coordination, cooperation at multiple levels”, Modi said.
PM also said that India will continue to expand & deepen its economic engagements with ASEAN.
He said he was “happy to convey that Nalanda University has been inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage site in July 2016”.
In his remarks today, the Prime Minister said that ASEAN is central to India’s Act East policy.
The East Asia Summit later in the day will be attended by leaders of the 10 Asean nations and those of India, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Russian Federation.
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The annual consultation is an important mechanism to strengthen the bilateral ties in which the fifth annual consultation was held in Putrajaya on February 28, last year.
