India committed to voicing issues of Global South: PM Modi

NEW DELHI: India and Ghana upgraded their narration to a broad concern with absorption connected enhancing defence and information ties, arsenic PM Narendra Modi became the archetypal Indian PM to sojourn the state successful 3 decades.

After a bilateral gathering with President John Mahama, Modi thanked Ghana for its practice successful the combat against coercion and for solidarity aft the Pahalgam attack, saying they had decided to further fortify practice successful counter-terrorism efforts."We besides held discussions connected determination and planetary issues, including the Sahel region. We are agreed successful our presumption that coercion is the force of humanity," said Modi successful his media remarks aft the meeting.During his day-long visit, Modi was conferred with Ghana's nationalist award, The Officer of the Order of the Star of Ghana, by President Mahama. The 2 countries besides signed 4 MoUs, including 1 to institutionalise high-level dialog and reappraisal bilateral practice mechanisms connected a regular basis. The 2 agreed to treble bilateral commercialized from the existent $3 cardinal to $6 cardinal implicit the adjacent 5 years.They discussed strengthening defence and information partnership.

"In country of defence and security, we volition determination guardant with the mantra of 'security done stability'. Cooperation volition beryllium extended successful areas of grooming of equipped forces, maritime security, defence supplies and cybersecurity," said PM Modi, adding that Indian companies shall cooperate successful exploration and mining of captious minerals.Modi conveyed India's heavy committedness to voicing concerns of the Global South and thanked Ghana for its solidarity connected the issue."They committed to further strengthening improvement practice concern - particularly done India-supported infrastructure and capacity-building projects. India offered to stock its experiences successful the fields of health, pharma, integer nationalist infrastructure, UPI and accomplishment development," said Indian govt, adding that the PM besides thanked President Mahama for taking attraction of the 15,000 beardown Indian assemblage successful Ghana."Development concern is simply a cardinal pillar of our partnership. We guarantee India's implicit enactment and practice towards President Mahama's efforts of economical restructuring," said Modi successful his media statement.