India and South Korea investigated ways of widening participation to new regions like
new technologies,
semiconductors, green hydrogen and portability of experts during a gathering of the respective joint commission in Seoul.
The gathering, co-led by outer undertakings serve S Jaishankar and his South Korean partner Cho Tae-yul, likewise directed an audit of participation in areas such as exchange, ventures, defense and security, science and innovation and individuals to-individuals trades.
Jaishankar, in a post on X, depicted the tenth joint commission meeting as exhaustive and useful and said the conversations covered the extended bilateral ties, participation in defence, science and technology, exchange and social collaboration.
“Also spoke of advancing trilateral cooperation. Exchanged views on the developments in the Indo-Pacific, our convergences to challenges in the region and regional & global issues of mutual interest,” he said in the post.
In his opening remarks at the meeting, Jaishankar said: “We have become truly important partners for each other and our bilateral exchanges – trade, investments, defence, and science and technology cooperation – have all seen a steady growth.”
He added, “While keeping up the momentum in the traditional areas of cooperation, we would be very much interested now in expanding it to new areas, such as critical and
emerging technologies, semiconductors, green hydrogen, human resource mobility, nuclear cooperation, supply chain resilience...to make our ties more contemporary.”
The external affairs ministry added in a readout that the gathering was a stage for an extensive survey of bilateral collaboration. As a component of the conversations on "improvements of normal interest and worry" in the Indo-Pacific, the different sides shared points of view on their particular dreams and methodologies for the locale, the readout added.