India to expand Trilateral Highway to include Cambodia besides India-Myanmar-Thailand

Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal on 15 September, underlined the importance of cross-border connectivity among India and developing nations of South-East Asia.

Addressing the ASEAN summit on Future of India-ASEAN Connectivity Partnerships virtually from New Delhi, Sonowal said that greater connectivity between ASEAN nations has long been both an economic and strategic objective for the ASEAN–India partnership. He said connectivity provides the transmission channels through which development impulses can spread across the region and can add to the dynamism of economic and social progress.

The minister added that India–ASEAN free trade agreement (FTA) is central to India’s growing engagement with her eastern neighbours. In this direction, he said, extension of the India-Myanmar-Thailand trilateral highway to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam will enable greater connectivity and economic integration of India’s northeast with its eastern neighbours, the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways said in a release.

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