UAE and India share ‘natural’ association & a sense of modernism, says Indian Minister Dr Jaishankar

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The UAE and India cherish a historical association, and the two economies’ shared sense of modernism creates multiple opportunities and benefits, India’s External Affairs Minister, Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, said in the capital on Thursday.  Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/uae/uae-and-india-share-natural-association-and-a-sense-of-modernism-says-indian-minister-dr-jaishankar-1.90265715  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  #UAEnews #indian #india

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00:00Let's take the two examples you mentioned, the Co-op and the India Co-op.

00:05You know, they have three common features.

00:09One, the U.S., present in both, is actually much more open to partnering countries who are not treaty allies.

00:21So the U.S. is changing. It's growing over its earlier mindset.

00:26This was not the U.S. of 20 years ago.

00:30Number two, you have an India which is willing to step beyond what were its earlier regions of comfort and activity and influence.

00:42So into the Pacific, the Indo-Pacific on that side, deeper into the, we call West Asia or Middle East, this region, the Gulf and beyond.

00:54Number three, in both cases, there are autonomous regional developments and dynamics.

01:04And the region itself has got more space to figure out how it wants to deal with itself.

01:14At that end, the Pacific, at this end, the Middle East.

01:20So these are really examples of trends and how you harness these trends to create something in the Middle East.

01:29So do I see this as a sustainable and possibly replicative way of working?

01:41Yes. I think the Quad has a longer history. It has obviously very much more to show for it.

01:51I think I2U2 has just started up. I'm very confident that, you know, we've already had one virtual summit and we've moved.

02:04The Quad took longer. And it had a false start. Then it got up to a real start.

02:10Then it moved from a kind of a, I'd say, a vice minister to a minister to a head of government here.

02:17We moved from foreign minister to the summit level.

02:20But we have actually already two projects, interesting projects.

02:27One on food, a food corridor. One on hybrid green, renewable energy.

02:34But there are a lot of interesting ideas sort of being tossed around.

02:41Ideas in business, ideas in innovation, technology.

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