New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters met National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and discussed various issues. During this, strategic security challenges in the Indo-Pacific region were discussed between the two leaders.
New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters is on an official visit to India from March 10 to March 13 with the main objective of establishing deep, comprehensive, beneficial relations with India and cooperation in the development of the Pacific Island region.
Through a post on social media platform X, Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters said that he discussed all such strategic security challenges facing the Indo-Pacific region with India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval. During this, the two countries also deliberated on taking necessary actions to deal with the strategic security challenges facing the Indo-Pacific region.
Earlier, the Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand, Winston Peters, also met the Vice President of India, Jagdeep Dhankhar. He discussed enhancing people-to-people relations, expanding connectivity and promoting economic cooperation between the two countries.
On his X account, Indian Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar posted that the discussion highlighted the cordial and friendly relations between India and New Zealand, which are based on common values inherent in democracy and the rule of law.
The leaders of the two countries also discussed efforts to strengthen and broaden bilateral relations between New Zealand and India in the form of parliamentary democracy.
On Indo-Pacific and global issues, New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters shared his views with Indian Foreign Minister S. Shared in meeting with Jaishankar. Apart from this, he also discussed cooperation in the Commonwealth and UNSC reforms. Foreign Minister S. According to Jaishankar, the leaders of the two countries discussed and agreed to enhance economic, trade and political relations.