During her visit to India, Foreign Minister Cho Hyun attended her first South Korea-India Foreign Ministers' meeting since taking office.

Minister Chohyun is taking a commemorative photo after holding her first foreign minister meeting with Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, the Indian Minister of Foreign Affairs, in New Delhi, India. /Courtesy of Yonhap News Agency

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the 16th, Minister Cho met with Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in New Delhi to exchange opinions on high-level exchanges, practical cooperation, and regional situations.

Minister Cho expressed the government's position that it aims to advance its strategic partnership with India, a key partner in the region, based on the vision of becoming a global responsible power that practically responds to changes in the world order.

In response, Minister Jaishankar expressed his appreciation for the visit to India and emphasized his commitment to strengthening cooperation with the new government.

On that day, both ministers agreed to strengthen cooperation in the areas of economic security, including progress in negotiations on the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) and supply chains and core technologies, and also agreed to expand cultural and human exchanges between the two countries.

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