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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is improbable to question to Malaysia to enactment successful the meetings related to the ASEAN acme opening Sunday (October 26, 2025) owed to scheduling issues, radical acquainted with the substance said connected Wednesday (October 22, 2025).
It is learnt that External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar volition correspond India astatine the meetings.
The ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) acme volition beryllium held successful Kuala Lumpur from October 26 to 28.
There is nary authoritative connection connected India's level of information astatine the deliberations related to the summit.
The radical cited supra said India is learnt to person conveyed to Malaysia that Mr. Jaishankar volition correspond India astatine the ASEAN meetings.
There is simply a anticipation of PM Modi's information done virtual mode astatine the ASEAN-India summit.
The Prime Minister has led the Indian delegations astatine the ASEAN-India acme and the East Asia Summit successful the past fewer years.
Malaysia has invited U.S. President Donald Trump arsenic good arsenic leaders of respective countries which are the dialog partners of the ASEAN. Mr. Trump is acceptable to question to Kuala Lumpur connected October 26 connected a two-day trip.
The ASEAN-India dialog relations started with the constitution of a sectoral concern successful 1992. This graduated to afloat dialog concern successful December 1995 and acme level concern successful 2002.
The ties were elevated to a strategical concern successful 2012.
The 10 subordinate countries of ASEAN are Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia.
The two-way relations betwixt India and ASEAN person been connected a important upswing successful the past fewer years with absorption being connected boosting practice successful the areas of commercialized and concern arsenic good arsenic information and defence.
According to the archetypal plan, a sojourn by PM Modi to Cambodia on with Malaysia was being contemplated. However, arsenic helium is not travelling to Malaysia, the planned travel to Cambodia stands postponed, the radical cited supra said.
