Dar-es-Salaam: India and Tanzania have agreed on a roadmap to further boost their time-tested ties by identifying new areas of cooperation in sectors like trade, investment, agriculture, defence, and education, the foreign ministers of the two countries said.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday met Tanzania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation Stergomena Tax at the 10th India-Tanzania Joint Commission Meeting here.
Jaishankar said the two sides had a very productive round of the Joint Commission.
“This gave us an opportunity to do a stocktaking of our relationship to discuss what the new areas are that we need to move forward. We also need to agree on how to deepen our cooperation in the areas that we have been working on for many years,” he said.
He said India and Tanzania have a very strong and time-tested relationship which is based on solidarity and camaraderie, which come from a shared struggle for independence during colonial times. Talking about their bilateral development partnership, Jaishankar said India is proud of the water partnership between the two nations.
Meanwhile, Stergomena Tax, Jaishankar’s Tanzanian counterpart, said, the two sides noted with satisfaction the milestones in various areas, including politics, trade and investment, energy, education, water, health, ICT, and defence, and agreed to reinforce cooperation in these areas.
During his visit, Jaishankar also called on Tanzanian President Samia Hassan and discussed bilateral ties in defence and security, maritime cooperation, and capacity building.
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