A day after India invited Japan to join the Indo-US Malabar exercises, Tomohiko Taniguchi, councillor in Japan's Cabinet secretariat said, "(Prime Minister Shinzo) Abe has welcomed the invite. It will take place, it has been agreed."
Talking about the forward movement in negotiations between the two countries over an agreement for cooperation in the peaceful uses of Nuclear energy, Kuni Sato, press secretary in Japan's foreign affairs ministry told reporters here "Differences on the civil nuclear deal have been narrowed down."
"That is why they (Singh and Abe) said they will encourage the issue. They said they would like to see negotiations to continue. Prime Minister Abe and many Japanese feel India has a sound non-proliferation record," Sato, who is part of Prime Minister Abe's delegation visiting India, said.
In another significant development, Japan announced that to encourage people-to-people contact, multiple entry three-year visas will be given to Indian tourists reciprocating India's earlier move of easing the visa regime between the two countries. Earlier, only single entry visas were issued to Indian tourists.
The developments came a day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held extensive talks with his Japanese counterpart Abe on bilateral, regional and global issues.
During the visit of Abe, who is the first Japanese Prime Minister to attend India's Republic Day celebrations as chief guest, the two countries also inked eight agreements including for promoting tourism, enhancing energy efficiency in telecom towers and for power generation in India.
On being asked whether the new National Security Adviser-level dialogue mechanism was a forum to discuss China, South China Sea and North Korea, Sato said, "I would say so, Yes, because it is a fact that China has been building up (militarily) and not necessarily with enough transparency."
"This dialogue will also pick up issues of North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Ukraine. Sharing views and exchanging opinions is important," she said.
Taniguchi said, "In his debut initiation trip as head of newly-created National Security Council (Shotaro Yachi) has chosen India and more specifically (Shivshankar) Menon as his dialogue partner, this fact should not be underestimated."
On being asked of the significant outcomes of Abe's trip, Sato said, "There has been forward movement on the politico-defence front with agreement to have National Security Adviser-level dialogue regularly and also the joint maritime exercise, so cooperation between the navy and maritime defence forces has made a forward movement."
In a joint statement issued after talks between the two prime ministers, the two sides welcomed the expansion of the bilateral currency swap arrangement from $15 to 50 billion.
"The Reserve Bank of India needs capital with which it can intervene into the currency market ... that capital ought to come domestically but you may have a shortage of that, in that case Japan will be providing a credit line to the Indian central bank," Taniguchi said.
Emphasising the importance of Abe's visit, he said, "The joint statement rich in context, big in numbers was supposed to withstand the change of government in India, to show the peoples of Japan and India that this already good bilateral relationship has a broad bipartisan support base."
"It is a handshake of the largest democracy in the world with the most seasoned democracy in Asia, knowing that the neighbourhood that surrounds us has become even more unstable," he said.
In an important announcement, Abe on Saturday announced a loan of $2 billion for third phase expansion of Delhi Metro that would add another 103 km to the network. The cost of the third phase expansion of Delhi Metro has been estimated at Rs 35,242 crore.
Distance covered by Delhi Metro would be longer than even in Tokyo after this loan, Sato said.
"Under economic cooperation some important projects have been taken up which will be mutually beneficial. Sometimes the most important cooperations do not have to be bilateral they could be trilateral or regional. India and Japan can also play an important role in the East Asia Summit (EAS) forum. What they can together do in ASEAN was also discussed by the prime ministers," she said.
Asked about the reform of the United Nations Security Council, Sato said the two countries would continue their efforts in this regard within the G-4 framework and to work for global growth and prosperity through the Group of 20.
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