Jaishankar is on an official visit to Malaysia, followed by the ones in Singapore and the Philippines.
Addressing the Indian diaspora in Kuala Lumpur, Jaishankar said, “We spoke about better market access to each other, increasing the scale of investment, how to grow the air connectivity between us, how to improve the mobility regime and we are appreciative of the fact that today many more sectors in Malaysia are open to skills and talents from India. We discussed how to increase tourism and again we very much appreciate the steps which have been taken at this end to encourage Indian tourists to come.”
The EAM said that India and Malaysia launched an Enhanced Strategic Partnership in 2015, but emphasised that as both countries enter the second decade of the partnership, it is also important to reimagine this relationship by raising the levels of ambitions.
“We (India and Malaysia) are concerned about nine years ago in 2015, we launched what was called an Enhanced…