Prime Minister Narendra Modi flew into the Vietnamese capital on his maiden visit to hold wide-ranging talks with the country’s top leadership on ways to bolster strategic bilateral ties in key areas like defence, security, counter terrorism and trade.

• >>Modi will hold extensive talks with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and call on President Tran Dai Quang on 05 sep 2016. He is also scheduled to meet Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.

• >>Defence, security, science and technology, trade and culture are some of the issues on the plate for the talks. Modi emphasized that India’s Act East Policy aimed to forge partnerships with its eastern neighbors to encompass security, strategic, political, counter-terrorism, and defence collaboration in addition to economic ties.

• >>Vietnam is a “very important pillar” in India’s Act East Policy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said his visit to the country, the first by an Indian premier in 15 years, was intended to boost the strategic ties and speed up bilateral engagements in key areas like defence, security and trade.

• >>Modi emphasized that India’s Act East Policy is aimed at forging partnerships with its eastern neighbours to encompass security, strategic, political, counter-terrorism, and defence collaboration in addition to economic ties.

• >>Vietnam is the ASEAN Coordinator for India for 2015-18 and the two countries have expressed their strong commitment in strengthening partnership within the India-ASEAN and Mekong-Ganga Cooperation frameworks.

• >>Modi invited Vietnam to look at India as an attractive investment destination and urged Vietnamese entrepreneurs to invest in North East India which he said is a focus area for India’s Act East Policy.