New Delhi: Civil nuclear cooperation talks will be high on the agenda, besides economic and regional and international issues, when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh goes to Japan on a three-day visit on Monday to attend a bilateral summit.
The prime minister will hold talks with Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe. The summit was originally slated to be held last November, but was postponed after Japan decided to go in for elections.
“We have been discussing a civil nuclear cooperation agreement and hope to make more progress by end of this year,” said Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai at a briefing here.
The prime minister will also hold talks on energy cooperation, including on “frozen seabed gas hydrates”, a breakthrough in Japan that India is interested in, said Mathai.
The two governments will discuss the LNG pricing issue as well as the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project, the Dedicated Freight Corridor Project, and upgrading of the Chennai-Bangalore corridor, he said.
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