Jaishankar And Australian Foreign Minister Held Bilateral Talks

Jaishankar and the Australian Foreign Minister held bilateral talks, from economic agreements to Ukraine.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held talks with his Austrian counterpart Alexander Schalenberg on Sunday.

From bilateral economic agreements between the two to the impact of Russia’s attack on Ukraine was also discussed.

Alexander Schalenberg arrived here on Saturday on a three-day visit to India. After the meeting, Jaishankar tweeted that talks with Australian Foreign Minister Schalenberg were fruitful

. Potential areas of bilateral economic cooperation were identified. His deep knowledge of India’s progress in the past decade is commendable.

India-Australia trade agreement is likely by the end of the month.

The mining and trading of precious metals have assumed an important place in the relations between the two countries.

Given the way, industrial supply chains have been affected globally due to the Corona epidemic and the subsequent Russian attack on Ukraine.

In the virtual summit to be held between PM Narendra Modi and Australian PM Scott Morrison on Monday, the draft agreement on the mining and use of lithium, cobalt will also be discussed.

In this, Australia will also announce an investment of Rs 1,500 crore in India.

Although as expected, the announcement of the trade agreement between the two countries will not be done in the virtual meeting, it is set to be announced at the second ceremony by the end of this month.

Modi’s summit with Marison will be his second meeting within three days with a top leader of another country from the Quad organization.

On Saturday, PM Modi had an annual summit meeting with the Prime Minister of Japan. The issue of Russia’s attack on Ukraine will come up in Modi and Marison’s meeting.

Australia, like Japan, is blaming Russia for this whole incident and has also announced a number of sanctions on it. However, Australia is taking cognizance of India’s stand.

Australia’s High Commissioner to New Delhi, Barry O’Farrell, says that the entire Quad organization is understanding India’s stand.

Every country has its own bilateral relations. It is expected that PM Modi is using his relationship with Russia to end this war situation.

It should be noted that Japanese PM Fumio Kishida also expressed hope on Saturday that PM Modi would prepare Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the attack on Ukraine.

I will go to Australia soon.

Pralhad Joshi Sources say that India has been in talks with Australia for a long time regarding the mining and common use of precious metals.

Soon India’s Mining Minister Pralhad Joshi will visit Australia. Australia produces 55 percent of the global lithium Australia alone produces 55 percent of the world’s lithium.

Lithium is used to make electric vehicles and solar power equipment. The production of these two is going to increase significantly in the coming days.

Let us tell you that in the summit meeting of the Quad countries in September last year, there was talk of jointly moving forward on the mining of precious metals.

There is also talk of a trade agreement between India and Australia. Right now there will be an agreement for the first phase but after that, a detailed trade agreement will be done.