South Korea’s foreign minister and his Indian counterpart will hold a meeting in Seoul next week to discuss issues ranging from security to energy cooperation, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and India’s top diplomat Sushma Swaraj will meet on Monday to exchange views on how to cooperate in such sectors as defense, trade, and science and technology, Seoul’s foreign ministry said.
Swaraj will be India’s highest-ranking official to visit Seoul since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office in May.
The planned meeting is expected to bolster Seoul’s plan to invite Modi to Seoul next year, it added.
“The talks are expected to serve as an occasion to deepen and expand the strategic partnership that the two nations agreed upon in 2010,” Noh Kwang-il, a spokesman at the foreign ministry, told a regular press briefing.
The two sides have held a foreign minister-level joint committee meeting since 2007, with the last one held in November 2013 in New Delhi. (Yonhap)
