India, Japan sign Civil Nuclear Agreement

India and Japan on Friday signed a bilateral Civil Nuclear Cooperation agreement during the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Tokyo. This pact will mark a historic step in engagement to build clean energy partnership between two countries.

The deal signed between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe will allow Japan to supply nuclear reactors, fuel and technologies for nuclear power production.

The two countries had in-depth exchanges on bilateral, regional and global issues of mutual interest to further deepen the broad-based and action-oriented partnership between India and Japan.

Both the leaders witnessed exchange of agreements in a wide range of sectors including, defence cooperation, zero-tolerance to terrorism etc.