Recently, External Affairs Minister Shri S Jaishankar attended the 12th Foreign Ministers’ Meeting of the Mekong Ganga Cooperation (MGC) Mechanism and the BIMSTEC Foreign Ministers’ Retreat.
Key points
- Addressing the Indian community soon after his arrival in Bangkok, Jaishankar spoke about the connectivity between Thailand and India.
- India, Thailand and Myanmar are working on about 1,400-km-long highway that would link the country with Southeast Asia by land and give a boost to trade, business, health, education and tourism ties among the three countries.
- Around 70 per cent of construction work on the ambitious India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway has been completed.
- The highway will connect Moreh in Manipur, India with Mae Sot in Thailand via Myanmar.
