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SME Times News Bureau | 13 Jul, 2015
India and Kyrgyzstan on Sunday
inked four agreements, including in defence cooperation and between
their election commissions, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks
with President Almazbek Atambayev.
Visiting Bishkek, the
penultimate stop of his tour of Central Asian countries, Modi in his
media statement said his visit to all five countries in the region
"demonstrates the importance that we attach to a new level of
relationship with Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan is a key part of that
vision".
Modi said resource-rich Central Asia has an important
place in India's future and both sides seek a peaceful and secure
neighbourhood and have a shared interest in combating extremism and
terrorism.
The agreement on defence cooperation was in matters
relating to defence, security, military education and training, conduct
of joint military exercises, exchange of experience and information,
exchange of military instructors and observers.
Modi said their defence ties were strong and the agreement would help broaden their defence cooperation.
The
Special Forces of the armed forces of the two countries held joint
exercise "Khanjar 2015" in Kyrgyzstan in March, "which reflected
continuity in exercises held in India in 2011. It was decided to hold
joint exercises on an annual basis", said the joint statement.
The
Kyrgyz side expressed its appreciation to India for "training Kyrgyz
military officers for conducting various UN Peacekeeping Courses,
including by the Centre for UN Peacekeeping in New Delhi", the statement
said.
Modi said the IT Centre in the Kyrgyz Military Academy "is
an example of innovative cooperation that is important to both
countries" and the new agreement would provide a framework to broaden
engagement.
Modi expressed happiness at the cooperation agreement
between the election commissions and said he looked forward to the
visit of a Kyrgyz parliamentary delegation to India.
The other
two agreements were an MoU between Kyrgyzstan's economy ministry and the
Bureau of Indian Standards on cooperation in the field of standards,
and an agreement on cooperation in culture.
Modi said both sides
discussed at length about boosting trade, investment, tourism, culture
and human resource development and added that the connectivity
initiative between India and Central Asia will further boost economic
ties.
Modi also thanked Kyrgyzstan for its support to India's candidature for a permanent United Nations Security Council seat.
In
the joint statement, India reaffirmed support of the candidacy of the
Kyrgyz Republic for the UN Human Rights Council for 2016-2018.
Both
sides expressed "grave concern at the rising trend of extremism,
radicalism and terrorism in the region and whole world" and India
"highly appreciated the steps taken by the Kyrgyz government in
counteracting terrorism and in retaining the secular character of Kyrgyz
society".
The two sides agreed to expeditiously consider signing
an agreement on "combating international terrorism and other crimes",
the statement said.
They also agreed to boost economic, trade and investment linkages which were below potential.
Modi
also congratulated Atambaev on Kyrgyzstan's joining the Russia-led
Eurasia Economic Union and both Sides agreed to work together for early
conclusion of a Free Trade Agreement between the Eurasia Economic Union
and India, said the joint statement.
Modi said both sides would
hold a roundtable in Bishkek in the field of agriculture to explore
possible avenues for cooperation and identify concrete projects.
India
has offered to share its experience in agro-processing, greenhouse
technology, water conservation, and agricultural research with
Kyrgyzstan.
The joint statement also expressed satisfaction over
"growing links in the health sector, including regular visits by doctors
from super-specialty hospitals in India to Kyrgyzstan, visits of
patients from Kyrgyzstan to India for medical treatment and complex
surgery at affordable cost and international standards, and the gifting
of a computed tomography machine to the National Center for Cardiology
and Internal Medicine (NCCIM) by the government of India in September
2014".
It also welcomed the launch of a project to establish
tele-medicine links between highly specialised hospitals of India and
six medical establishments of Kyrgyzstan.
At the lunch banquet, Atambayev said "India has a calling to become a great economic power like the US and China".
Modi later met Kyrgyz parliament Speaker Asylbek Jeenbekov and also held talks with Prime Minister Temir Sariyev.
During his meeting with Sariyev, Modi gifted medical equipment to Kyrgyzstan's Level II Field Hospital.
He also visited the Kyrgyz-India Mountain Biomedical Research Centre.
Modi gifted the president a hand-knotted carpet of very fine grade wool blended with silk.
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