July 5, 2023
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Jaishankar to set off 4-day visit to Tanzania

Jaishankar will call on the top leadership of the East African country and also attend a reception onboard Indian Naval Ship Trishul…reports Asian Lite News

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is all set to embark on a four-day official visit to Tanzania on Wednesday to hold high-level talks and co-chair the 10th Joint Commission Meeting with his counterpart, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a release.

During his visit, Jaishankar will call on the top leadership of the East African country and also attend a reception onboard Indian Naval Ship Trishul. He will also address the Indian diaspora and inaugurate the bust of Swami Vivekananda. During his four-day visit to the African nation, Jaishankar will first visit Zanzibar from July 5 to 6, where he will visit a water supply project funded by the Government of India line of credit, call on top leadership, and also attend a reception onboard the Indian Naval Ship Trishul, which is visiting Tanzania.

“EAM will thereafter visit the Dar-es-Salaam city of Tanzania from 07-08 July 2023, where he will co-chair the 10th India-Tanzania Joint Commission Meeting with his counterpart and call on the country’s top leadership, including several Cabinet rank Ministers,” the official release said.

“During the visit, he will meet with the members of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for India and inaugurate an India-Tanzania business meeting. EAM will also be addressing the Indian diaspora and inaugurating the bust of Swami Vivekananda in Dar es Salaam,” the release added.

India and Tanzania share close and friendly relations. In strengthening the education ties between the two countries, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) will open its first-ever overseas campus in Tanzania’s Zanzibar in October 2023 with a batch of 50 undergraduate students and 20 master’s students, The Citizen reported.

The new IIT campus will be set up in Zanzibar under the name IIT Madras at Zanzibar. Zanzibar will be one of three campuses outside of India, with the others located in Abu Dhabi and Kuala Lumpur.

The Citizen is a Tanzanian Daily reporting on political and social issues of Tanzania and the African region.

India and Tanzania also saw the second edition of the Joint Defence Cooperation Committee (JDCC) meeting between the two countries, which was held in Arusha on June 28 and 29, earlier this year.

In the JDDC meeting, the two sides discussed enhancing security in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), the Ministry of Defence said in a statement.

The Indian delegation highlighted the growing prowess of the Indian defence manufacturing to export to friendly countries.

A five-year roadmap for defence cooperation was also agreed to between the two sides, which covers initiatives ranging from customised training and capacity building to maritime cooperation, infrastructure building and collaboration in defence equipment and technology, the defence ministry official added. (with inputs from agencies)

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