Addressing the Indian diaspora in Kuala Lumpur, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday said, “We spoke about better market access to each other, increasing the scale of investment, how to grow the air connectivity between us, how to improve the mobility regime and we are appreciative of the fact that today many more sectors in Malaysia are open to skills and talents from India. We discussed how to increase tourism and again we very much appreciate the steps which have been taken at this end to encourage Indian tourists to come.”

The EAM said that India and Malaysia launched an Enhanced Strategic Partnership in 2015, but emphasised that as both countries enter the second decade of the partnership, it is also important to reimagine this relationship by raising the levels of ambitions.

“We are concerned about nine years ago in 2015, we launched what was called an Enhanced Strategic Partnership and next year, in a way, we would have completed a decade. It is an engagement which has seen trade grow to about USD 20 billion annually,” Jaishankar said.
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