{"id":3483,"date":"2020-06-08T01:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tat.capital\/?p=3483"},"modified":"2025-06-04T03:45:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T03:45:04","slug":"highlights-from-the-first-virtual-bilateral-summit-between-australia-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tat.capital\/?p=3483","title":{"rendered":"Highlights from the First Virtual Bilateral Summit between Australia &amp; India"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3483\" class=\"elementor elementor-3483\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-578ecfb e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"578ecfb\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a55c9e6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a55c9e6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Highlights from the First Virtual Bilateral Summit between Australia & India<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-00ed22a hfe-post-info-layout-inline elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info-widget\" data-id=\"00ed22a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"post-info-widget.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"hfe-post-info-inline hfe-post-info-items hfe-post-info\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"hfe-post-info-item elementor-repeater-item-733c5dd hfe-post-info-inline-item\" itemprop=\"datePublished\"> \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/tat.capital\/?m=20200608\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"hfe-post-info-text hfe-post-info__item hfe-post-info__item--type-date\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJune 8, 2020\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t<li class=\"hfe-post-info-item elementor-repeater-item-c23d502 hfe-post-info-inline-item\"> \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"hfe-post-info-text hfe-post-info__item hfe-post-info__item--type-time\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:21 am\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-88bafe0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"88bafe0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"margin-bottom: 15px; font-size: 17px;\">The&nbsp;<span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 600;\">first Virtual Bilateral Summit<\/span>&nbsp;between Australia-India&nbsp;held on June 4, 2020 has successfully heralded a great synergistic collaboration between the two APAC economies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 15px; font-size: 17px;\">Prime Ministers Narendra Modi &amp; Scott Morrison have committed to elevate the bilateral Strategic Partnership (which concluded in 2009) to a&nbsp;<span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 600;\">Comprehensive Strategic Partnership<\/span>&nbsp;(CSP).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 15px; font-size: 17px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Both countries aspire to have an open, free, rules-based Indo-Pacific&nbsp;region which is supported by inclusive global and regional institutions to promote stable, prosperous, and sovereign states with shared interests.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin-bottom: 15px; font-size: 17px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Few Highlights:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\">\n<\/p><ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-block: 5px 0px; padding-inline: 20px 0px;\">\n<li style=\"padding-block: 5px; padding-inline: 0px; list-style: inherit; text-align: left;\">Joint Statement on a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between Republic of India &amp; Australia<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-block: 5px; padding-inline: 0px; list-style: inherit; text-align: left;\">Joint Declaration on a Shared Vision for Maritime Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-block: 5px; padding-inline: 0px; list-style: inherit; text-align: left;\">Framework Arrangement on Cyber and Cyber-Enabled Critical Technology Cooperation<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-block: 5px; padding-inline: 0px; list-style: inherit; text-align: left;\">MOU on cooperation in the field of Mining and processing of critical and strategic minerals<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-block: 5px; padding-inline: 0px; list-style: inherit; text-align: left;\">Arrangement concerning Mutual Logistics Support (MLSA)<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-block: 5px; padding-inline: 0px; list-style: inherit; text-align: left;\">Implementing arrangement concerning cooperation in Defence Science and Technology to the MoU on Defence Cooperation<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-block: 5px; padding-inline: 0px; list-style: inherit; text-align: left;\">MoU on Co-operation in the field of Public Administration and Governance Reforms<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-block: 5px; padding-inline: 0px; list-style: inherit; text-align: left;\">MoU on Cooperation in Vocational Education and Training<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-block: 5px; padding-inline: 0px; list-style: inherit; text-align: left;\">MoU on Water Resources Management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 15px; font-size: 17px;\">\n<\/p><p style=\"margin-bottom: 15px; font-size: 17px;\">We&#8217;ve made an infographic&nbsp;highlight to reflect&nbsp;the&nbsp;summit&nbsp;statement against findings from Tat Capital&#8217;s Australia India 2019 Industry Report, released during TatXpo2019 (refer attachment)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 15px; font-size: 17px;\">A brief&nbsp;look at the various sectors covered during the summit&nbsp;talks&nbsp;\u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 15px; font-size: 17px;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 24px;\">Education<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 15px; font-size: 17px;\">Education being a central component of the economic relationship, both PMs noted to continue efforts to expand partnership in this area.&nbsp;They also concluded a new Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in Vocational Education and Training to create new areas of cooperation in policy development, program delivery and exchange of information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 15px; font-size: 17px;\">As per the Industry Report by Tat Capital in 2019, India is already Australia&#8217;s 2nd -biggest education market and the familiarity of a growing Indian community in the diaspora provides additional boost to prospective Indian students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 15px; 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