It's learnt that Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will symbolize India on the conferences.
The ASEAN (Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations) summit will likely be held in Kuala Lumpur from October 26 to twenty-eight.
There isn't any official phrase on India's stage of participation on the deliberations associated to the summit.
The folks cited above stated India is learnt to have conveyed to Malaysia that Jaishankar will symbolize India on the ASEAN conferences.
There's a chance of PM Modi's participation by means of digital mode on the ASEAN-India summit. The prime minister has led the Indian delegations on the ASEAN-India summit and the East Asia Summit in the previous few years. Malaysia has invited US President Donald Trump in addition to leaders of a number of nations that are the dialogue companions of the ASEAN. Trump is about to journey to Kuala Lumpur on October 26 on a two-day journey.
The ASEAN-India dialogue relations began with the institution of a sectoral partnership in 1992. This graduated to full dialogue partnership in December 1995 and summit stage partnership in 2002.
The ties have been elevated to a strategic partnership in 2012.
The ten member nations of ASEAN are Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia.
The 2-way relations between India and ASEAN have been on a big upswing in the previous few years with focus being on boosting cooperation within the areas of commerce and funding in addition to safety and defence.
Based on the preliminary plan, a go to by PM Modi to Cambodia together with Malaysia was being contemplated. Nonetheless, as he isn't travelling to Malaysia, the deliberate journey to Cambodia stands postponed, the folks cited above stated.
