Nine MoUs signed as India and Malaysia elevate relationship to Comprehensive Strategic Partnership [Video]

Elevating India-Malaysia relationship to Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and visiting Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim held wide-ranging talks in New Delhi on Tuesday which culminated in the signing of nine Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs), ranging from digital technologies, tourism, recruitment, employment and repatriation of workers to co-operation in the field of Ayurveda and other traditional systems of medicine.

India also approved a ‘special allocation’ of 200,000 MT of white rice to Malaysia, 100 additional ITEC slots for Malaysian nationals, establishment of Ayurveda Chair at University Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) and Thiruvalluvar Chair of Indian Studies at the Malaya University in Malaysia besides cooperation between start-up ecosystems in both countries under an India-Malaysia Startup Alliance.

Malaysia is a key pillar of India’s ‘Act East’ policy and a valued partner in the Southeast Asian region. Both countries have strong historical and socio-cultural linkages with the bilateral relationship being elevated to the status of Enhanced Strategic Partnership in 2015 …