Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Oct 30: African Ministers’ delegation today called on Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh and discussed issues of mutual interest.
The members of the delegation, among others, included Namibian Minister for Forest and Agriculture, Johannes Mutorwa, Minister for Mines and Energy/Power, Obeth Kandjoze and High Commissioner Pius Dunaiski. All of them were in the union capital to attend the Third India-Africa Forum Summit (IAFS) 2015 and before leaving back, they decided to hold a one-to-one meeting with Dr Jitendra Singh for a threadbare discussion on issues that came up during the summit as well as other issues of concern among the nations.
Obeth Kandjoze spoke in detail about various steps and measures taken by his government in the area of promoting energy and also in collaboration with other Nation States of the world for mutual benefit. He promised to keep in regular touch with Indian authorities for carrying forward joint programmes between the two nations and also assured to send back important feedbacks.
Johannes Mutorwa, who is a senior Minister in his Cabinet, spoke about the vast new resources which are being explored by his government that could strengthen the bondage with friendly countries like India. He referred to administrative procedures followed by his government and said, these were not very much different from the procedures followed in other countries.
Dr Jitendra Singh warmly welcomed the ministerial delegation and said, India was glad to take forward the spirit of mutual cooperation among the African nations. He said, it goes to the credit of the present government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to have organised an India-Africa Forum Summit which had never brought together so many Heads of States together on the same platform at the same time.
Dr Jitendra Singh referred to global trends of advancement in certain common areas including nuclear energy, renewable energy and water resources and said, in such areas, the Member Nations could seek a closer cooperation without any reservations whatsoever. He extended to the visiting Ministers an invitation to keep visiting India in future from time to time even in addition to the formally scheduled summits.
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