{"id":31721,"date":"2018-10-29T10:56:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T05:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31721"},"modified":"2018-10-29T10:56:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T05:26:29","slug":"india-should-be-proactive-asean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-should-be-proactive-asean\/","title":{"rendered":"India should be proactive: ASEAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-should-be-pro-active-asean\/article22531164.ece\">India should be proactive: ASEAN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All leaders at the just concluded ASEAN-India Commemorative Summit had urged India to play a proactive role in the Asia-Pacific region, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said here on Friday<\/p>\n<p><strong>The bloc sees New Delhi as key to Indo-Pacific region\u2019s peace and prosperity, says MEA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The official statement complements Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s comments that the Indo-Pacific region will be \u201cindispensable\u201d India\u2019s future<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Looking East<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an op-ed article, published on Friday in leading newspapers across ASEAN countries, including the\u00a0<em>The Straits Times<\/em>\u00a0(Singapore),\u00a0<em>Bangkok Post<\/em>\u00a0(Thailand) and\u00a0<em>Manila Bulletin<\/em>\u00a0(Philippines)<em>,\u00a0<\/em>Mr Modi said, \u201cIndians have always looked East to see the nurturing sunrise and the light of opportunities. Now, as before, the East, or the Indo-Pacific region, will be indispensable to India&#8217;s future and our common destiny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education initiatives<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>During the summit, India announced 1,000 PhD fellowships in the IITs for students from the ASEAN countries.<\/li>\n<li>New Delhi also announced a dedicated training course in highway engineering, setting up of a virtual network of universities, and pilot projects to set up digital infrastructure at the ASEAN-India Commemorative Summit<\/li>\n<li>Further, an ASEAN-India Startup festival will be held later this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Year of Tourism<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The participating countries also agreed to celebrate 2019 as the year of tourism for ASEAN nations<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deradicalization attempts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apart from countering \u2018traditional and non-traditional\u2019 threats to freedom of navigation, India plans to work closely with Malaysia and Indonesia on handling radicalization<\/p>\n<p>A conference on de-radicalisation will be held soon, said the official.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0India-ASEAN\u00a0bonhomie will be followed by further diplomacy on Sunday when Delhi will host Cambodian leader Hun Sen for a bilateral vist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India should be proactive: ASEAN Context All leaders at the just concluded ASEAN-India Commemorative Summit had urged India to play a proactive role in the Asia-Pacific region, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said here on Friday The bloc sees New Delhi as key to Indo-Pacific region\u2019s peace and prosperity, says MEA The official statement&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-should-be-proactive-asean\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India should be proactive: ASEAN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704777654},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}