PM Modi meets Akie Abe, the spouse of Japan’s late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday met with Akie Abe, the spouse of Japan’s late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and fondly recalled his shut friendship with Shinzo Abe.
PM Modi additionally expressed his appreciation for Akie Abe’s ongoing engagement with India.
Sharing a publish on X, he wrote, “Happy to fulfill Mrs. Abe this afternoon. Recalled my shut private friendship with former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan.”
“Abe San’s perception within the potential of India-Japan relations will stay a supply of putting up with energy for us. Deeply recognize Mrs. Abe’s persevering with affiliation with India,” the publish on X additional learn.
Earlier within the day, Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar additionally held a gathering with Akie Abe. He recalled reminiscences of Shinzo Abe and his dedication to “friendship” between India and Japan.
He additionally mentioned that the strategic imaginative and prescient of the previous Japanese Prime Minister will function a guiding gentle for the ties between India and Japan.
In a publish on X, Mr Jaishankar acknowledged, “The assembly with Mrs. Akie Abe this morning introduced again so many reminiscences of PM Shinzo Abe and his dedication to India-Japan friendship. As our ties steadily progress, the strategic imaginative and prescient of PM Abe will all the time function a guiding spirit.”
Shinzo Abe was assassinated in Nara on July 8, 2022, throughout an election marketing campaign deal with on the road. He was taken to the hospital, the place Abe was pronounced useless.
Abe (67), the previous Liberal Democratic Get together chief and Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, held workplace from 2006 to 2007 and once more from 2012 to 2020, earlier than resigning as a result of well being causes. PM Modi had condoled the demise of Abe and attended the state funeral of the late Japanese PM at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on September 27, 2022.
In 2007, Shinzo Abe, throughout his go to to India, delivered the well-known “The Confluence of Two Seas” speech within the Indian parliament, in line with a Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA). He additionally participated in Republic Day celebrations because the Chief Visitor in 2014. He was conferred with India’s highest civilian honour, Padma Vibhushan, in 2021.
Notably, India and Japan share a ‘Particular Strategic and International Partnership’. Friendship between the 2 nations has an extended historical past rooted in non secular affinity and powerful cultural and civilisational ties, in line with MEA.
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