India-Australia: India-Australia focus on strategic partnership in crucial minerals, commerce & investments

Defence minister Rajnath Singh and exterior affairs minister S. Jaishankar met Australian deputy prime minister and defence minister Richard Marles and overseas minister Penny Wong in New Delhi as a part of the second India-Australia 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue.

Understandably, the state of affairs within the Indo-Pacific area amid China’s navy ambitions figured within the Dialogue.

In a put up on X, previously Twitter, exterior affairs ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi stated, “Ministers will change views on deepening multifaceted India-Australia ties, together with in areas of defence and safety, commerce & funding, crucial minerals, vitality, local weather change, S&T, area, schooling and other people to individuals linkages. Regional and world points are additionally on agenda.”

Forward of the assembly, Ms Wong and Mr Marles visited the Nationwide Battle Memorial to pay respects to troopers who sacrificed their lives.

“India and Australia have an extended historical past of navy relations – Australian troopers have fought alongside Indian troops in various campaigns, together with at Gallipoli,” Wong stated on X.