Friday, March 15, 2013

India, Mauritius bilateral meet

President Pranab Mukherjee visited Mauritius as the chief guest at the 45th Independence Day celebrations of Mauritius.

During the visit India and Mauritius agreed that bilateral line of credit must be used as a vehicle to realise the untapped potential in trade and economic ties and vowed to step up security cooperation, including anti-piracy operations.

The two leaders also discussed potential areas for cooperation such as exploration of marine resources, renewable energy and environment friendly technologies.

Further on the issue of piracy in the Indian Ocean region which has adversely impacts all nations, India gave commitment for the safety and security of Mauritius.  Indian Naval ships will continue to undertake joint anti-piracy and Exclusive Economic Zone surveillance exercises with their Mauritian counterparts to ensure maritime security in these waters.

India will also continue to extend assistance to Mauritius in the field of human resource development and capacity building and has already increased the training slots for Mauritius under the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation programme to 170 for civilian programmes and 100 for defence-related programmes. These slots can be increased to meet further demands. 

Following documents were signed during the visit:

a) MOU in the field of persons with disabilities and senior citizens which includes collaboration in the following areas:
I. Empowerment of persons with disabilities and senior citizens;
II. Exchange of resource persons in the identified fields;
III. Strengthening capacity-building of personnel and NGOs in the identified fields;
IV. Exchange programmes for the benefit of senior citizens, persons with disabilities, and NGO leaders/ volunteers in these fields;
V. Conducting joint research and exchange of research outcomes.

b) MOU in the field of health and medicine which includes following areas of cooperation:
I. Medical Research
II. Health Service Planning
III. Lab and Diagnostics
IV. Drugs and Pharmaceutical products: 
V. Traditional Medicine
VI. Health Tourism
VII. Telemedicine

c) MOU in the field of tourism to enhance cooperation in following areas
I. Expansion of bilateral cooperation in tourism sector
II. Exchange of information and data related to tourism
III. Encouraging cooperation between tourism stakeholders including Hotels and Tour Operators
IV. Investment in the Tourism and Hospitality sectors
V. Exchanging visits of Tour Operators/Media/ Opinion Makers for promotion of two way tourism
VI. Promoting safe, honourable and sustainable tourism

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