India, Tanzania Agree to Deepen Bilateral Cooperation in New Areas
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New Delhi has escalated its efforts to expand ties with African countries, including collaborations in the defence sector, in recent years.
In a bid to expand their cooperation to newer areas, India and Tanzania laid out a roadmap for collaboration in various sectors, especially defence, education, agriculture, trade, and investment, the foreign ministers of the two nations announced during the weekend.
The development came following a meeting between India's External Affairs Minister (EAM) Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and his Tanzanian counterpart Stergomena Tax on Saturday.
The Indian EAM described his discussions with Tax as "very productive".
"This gave us an opportunity to do a stocktaking of our relationship to discuss what are the new areas that we need to move forward. Also, to agree on how to deepen our cooperation in the areas that we have been working on for many years", Jaishankar said.
The development came following a meeting between India's External Affairs Minister (EAM) Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and his Tanzanian counterpart Stergomena Tax on Saturday.
The Indian EAM described his discussions with Tax as "very productive".
"This gave us an opportunity to do a stocktaking of our relationship to discuss what are the new areas that we need to move forward. Also, to agree on how to deepen our cooperation in the areas that we have been working on for many years", Jaishankar said.
He added that New Delhi's main focus was on increasing economic cooperation with Dodoma and the two discussed ideas about how to enhance trade and investment.
Among other areas that featured in the talks were partnering in the information and communications technology sector.
"We spoke about expanding training and exchanges within us. And we looked at areas like health, agriculture, defence, and education as new domains to go between India and Tanzania", Jaishankar elaborated.
The announcement about the expansion of ties between the South Asian country and the African nation comes days after India's premier Indian Institute of Technology Madras inked an agreement to start its first overseas campus in the Tanzanian city of Zanzibar.
The move is crucial for Tanzania given that it faces a huge shortage of engineers.
The campus in Zanzibar will admit both undergraduate and postgraduate students from October 2023.
Among other areas that featured in the talks were partnering in the information and communications technology sector.
"We spoke about expanding training and exchanges within us. And we looked at areas like health, agriculture, defence, and education as new domains to go between India and Tanzania", Jaishankar elaborated.
The announcement about the expansion of ties between the South Asian country and the African nation comes days after India's premier Indian Institute of Technology Madras inked an agreement to start its first overseas campus in the Tanzanian city of Zanzibar.
The move is crucial for Tanzania given that it faces a huge shortage of engineers.
The campus in Zanzibar will admit both undergraduate and postgraduate students from October 2023.
