Prime Minister Narendra Modi will leave for Japan tour on August 28. Foreign Minister Vikram Misri said that this visit is going to be important for many reasons.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will leave for Japan tour on 28 August. Regarding PM Modi's visit, the Ministry of External Affairs said that this visit is going to be important for many reasons. Foreign Ministry Secretary Vikram Misri said that this will be PM Modi's first visit to Japan in 7 years. PM Modi will then visit China. He will be in Shanghai from 31 August.

On PM Modi's upcoming visit to Japan, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said, "Prime Minister Modi is leaving on an official visit to Japan on the evening of 28 August. He will be in Japan on 29 and 30 August to attend the 15th India-Japan Annual Summit with the Prime Minister of Japan His Excellency Shigeru Ishiba. This is an important visit for many reasons.  

Why will the Prime Minister's visit to Japan be important

He said, " This is Prime Minister Modi's first annual summit meeting with Prime Minister Ishiba. This is also his first visit to Japan in almost 7 years. He last visited in 2018 for the annual summit. Since then, he has visited Japan, but that has been for multilateral events and other formal events. This will be a visit that will be entirely dedicated to the bilateral agenda between India and Japan. This is also the Prime Minister's eighth visit to Japan since he assumed office in 2014 and it reflects the high priority of this special relationship in our foreign relations."

What did the Foreign Ministry say on the PM's China visit

Tanmaya Lal, Secretary (West), Ministry of External Affairs, said, "Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Tianjin, China on August 31 and September 1 for the 25th meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Council (SCO) at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. The SCO was established with the primary goal of combating the three evils of terrorism, separatism and extremism, which still remain a challenge."

He said, "The SCO has 10 members. Apart from India, these include Belarus, China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The programme of the upcoming 25th SCO Summit in Tianjin includes a welcome banquet on the evening of August 31 and the main summit will be held the next day, Monday, September 1. The Prime Minister is expected to hold some bilateral meetings during the SCO Summit."