PM Modi arrives in Laos to attend ASEAN-India, East Asia summits

Laos is the existent seat of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) founded successful 1967.

Modi was accorded a accepted invited astatine the airdrome by Lao PDR Minister of Home Affairs Vilaywong Bouddhakham portion immoderate clip later, astatine the edifice lobby, wherever members of the Indian diaspora greeting him with cheerful slogans. He besides interacted with the assemblage members.

“Landed successful Lao PDR. Looking guardant to the deliberations with assorted satellite leaders,” Modi posted connected X aft reaching there.

During the visit, Modi volition enactment successful the 21st ASEAN-India and the 19th East Asia summits.

Later, Modi witnessed ‘Phralak Phralam,’ the Laotian Ramayan performance. According to phralakphralam.com, the Lao Ramayana differs from the archetypal Indian version. It had reached Laos late, astir the 16th century, brought by Buddhist missions.

In his departure connection successful New Delhi, Modi noted that India is marking a decennary of Act East argumentation this year.
“I volition articulation the ASEAN leaders to reappraisal advancement successful our Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and illustration the aboriginal absorption of our cooperation,” the premier curate said.

The East Asia Summit volition supply an accidental to deliberate connected the challenges to peace, stableness and prosperity successful the Indo-Pacific region, helium said.

Modi said India shared adjacent taste and civilisation ties with the region, including with the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR), which is enriched by a shared practice of Buddhism and Ramayana.

“I look guardant to my meetings with the Lao PDR enactment to further fortify our bilateral ties,” helium said.
He added, “This is simply a peculiar twelvemonth arsenic we people a decennary of our Act East Policy, which has led to important benefits for our nation. There volition besides beryllium assorted bilateral meetings and interactions with assorted satellite leaders during this visit.” The ASEAN subordinate States are Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, India, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Brunei Darussalam.

The East Asia Summit comprises the 10 ASEAN countries and 8 partners – Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Russia and the United States. Timor-Leste has the perceiver presumption astatine the EAS.