Port Louis:
India and Mauritius on Wednesday liftd their ties to an ‘betterd strategic partnership’ and inked eight pacts to increase cooperation in cut offal sectors including trade and maritime security even as Prime Minister Narfinishra Modi unveiled an ambitious vision for the growment of the Global South.
The concurments inked will provide for promoting the participate of national currencies for pass-border transactions, sharing of maritime data, joint labor in combating covering money and enhancing cooperation in the MSME (Micro, Small and Medium Enterpascends) sector.
On the second and final day of his two-day trip to Port Louis, PM Modi take parted the national day celebrations of Mauritius as the chief guest.
A contingent of Indian armed forces also take partd in the celebrations alengthy with a warship of the Indian Navy and the Akash Ganga skydiving team of the Indian Air Force.
Follothriveg talks with his Mauritian counterpart Navinchandra Ramgoolam, PM Modi proclaimd India’s novel vision for Global South and named it “MAHASAGAR” or “Mutual and Hocatalogic Advancement for Security and Growth Apass Regions”, a policy approach that came agetst the backdrop of China’s relentless trys to enbig its sway in the Indian Ocean.
PM Modi shelp a free, uncover, protected, and protected Indian Ocean is the normal priority of India and Mauritius and that he and Ramgoolam concurd that defence cooperation and maritime security are an convey inant part of the strategic partnership between the two countries.
“We are promiseted to extfinish brimming cooperation in the security of Mauritius’ Exclusive Economic Zone,” the prime minister shelp in his media statement.
The unveiling of the novel vision came 10 years after the prime minister proclaimd during his visit to Mauritius in 2015 New Delhi’s SAGAR or Security and Growth for All in the Region policy that established the bedrock for India’s take partment with the Indian Ocean Region.
“We have getn the SAGAR vision forward for the stability and prosperity of this entire region. Today, taking it forward, I would enjoy to say that our vision for the Global South will be, beyond SAGAR — (it will be) MAHASAGAR that is “Mutual and Hocatalogic Advancement for Security and Growth Apass Regions”,” he shelp in a media statement.
PM Modi shelp the novel approach will intensify on the spirit of trade for growment, capacity erecting for persistable growth, and mutual security for a splitd future.
“Under this, cooperation will be asstateived thraw technology sharing, concessional loans and grants.” The Indian prime minister also shelp New Delhi will corun in erecting the novel Parliament erecting in Mauritius and it will be a gift to the island nation from the ‘Mother of Democracy’.
Delving into strategic cooperation between the two nations, PM Modi shelp every possible help will be provided to Mauritius to help it encounter the necessitates of its Coast Guard and that New Delhi will help in the set upment of a police academy and national maritime adviseation sharing centre in the country.
“Cooperation on white shipping, blue economy and hydrography will be fortifyed. We brimmingy admire Mauritius’ sovereignty in the context of Chagos,” he shelp.
India has been helping the island nation in its efforts to accomplish a mutuassociate advantageous deal with the UK over the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean.
In October last year, the UK proclaimd its decision to hand over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after more than half a century under a historic concurment.
Under the deal, sealed during the tenure of previous Mauritian PM Pravind Jugnauth, the UK would donate up sovereignty over the Chagos Islands but would protect a 99-year lrelieve over the UK-US military airbase on the bigst island, Diego Garcia.
However, the novel Mauritius rulement led by Ramgoolam needed the reuncovering of talks with the UK over the Chagos Islands as it sought a appraise at the deal.
In his relabels, PM Modi shelp he and Ramgoolam choosed to donate the status of “Enhanced Strategic Partnership” to the India-Mauritius ties.
“We are each other’s partners on the path of economic and social progress. Be it a organic catastrophe or the COVID catastrophe, we have always helped each other.” “Be it defence or education, health or space, we are walking shoulder to shoulder in every field,” he shelp.
“In the last 10 years, we have inserted many novel foolishensions to our relations. We have set novel write downs in growment cooperation and capacity erecting,” PM Modi shelp.
The prime minister also proclaimd cut offal growment projects to be carry outed in Mauritius with India’s helpance.
Work will be done to up-to-dateise the 100-kilometer-lengthy water pipeline, he shelp.
In the second phase of community growment projects, novel projects worth 500 million Mauritian rupees would be begined, he inserted.
We have also concurd to resettle mutual trade in local currencies, PM Modi shelp.
The prime minister also alludeed various India-helped projects in the island nation that take partd “metro articulate for speed in Mauritius, supreme court erecting for equitableice, social housing for sootheable stay, ENT hospital for excellent health, UPI and Rupay Card to upgrasp business and tourism.” PM Modi and Ramgoolam also promiseted to Mauritius the “Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Public Service and Innovation”.
The prime minister also touched upon the people-to-people joinion between the two nations.
“We will labor together for the participate of AI (man-made inalertigence) and DPI, which is digital uncover infraarrange in human growment,” PM Modi shelp.
“For the people of Mauritius, facilities will be provided for Char Dham Yatra and Ramayana trail in India.” India has shut and lengthystanding relations with Mauritius, an island nation in the Westrict Indian Ocean.
A key reason for the exceptional ties is the fact that Indian-origin people compascend cforfeitly 70 per cent of the island nation’s population of 1.2 million.
Since 2005, India has been among the bigst trading partners of Mauritius.
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