India's PM visits Thailand

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Our connectivity projects by sea and land will further deepen linkages and cooperation between India and Southeast Asia. They will support economic development and reinvigorate historic cultural and spiritual links in the region, especially in northeastern India. We will work together with Myanmar to ensure completion of the trilateral highway project by 2016 and pursue development of other corridors. 

Our growing security cooperation received a major boost today. The Extradition Treaty, concluded after two decades of negotiations, and a memorandum on cooperation in anti-money laundering send a major signal of our shared commitment to combating terrorism, organized crime, drug trafficking and counterfeiting. 

We also agreed to continue strengthening defence relations, including through exchanges, exercises and joint patrolling. 

As you have seen from the agreements signed today, we place strong emphasis on improving collaboration in areas like science and technology, space science, education, culture and people-to-people exchanges. These will benefit our two countries and bring our people together in a variety of ways. We are also going to mount a major exhibition on Buddhist Art in Bangkok soon. 

We agreed to strengthen consultations and cooperation in the ASEAN Regional Forum and other ASEAN-related forums, East Asia Summit, BIMSTEC and the Mekong Ganga Cooperation initiative. I appreciate Prime Minister’s Shinawatra’s unstinting support to India’s strategic partnership and enhanced engagement with ASEAN. Let me reiterate India’s commitment to making India-ASEAN partnership a force for peace and shared prosperity in our region. 

 Excerpts from PM's speech 
Courtesy : PIB

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