PM Modi proposes joint task force on extension of India-Myanmar-Thailand trilateral highway
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 8 proposed a joint task force on connectivity to work on extension of India-Myanmar-Thailand trilateral highway to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, while also proposing to enhance the ASEAN-India Fund with an additional grant of US $ 50 million. Speaking at the 14th ASEAN India Summit in Vientiane, Laos , Prime Minister Modi declared that India supports the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. “Sea lanes are life lines of global trade. India supports freedom of navigation based on ÚNCLOS,” he added. He also emphasized on New Delhi’s will to take on cyber security.
