Overview

• Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Sitiveni Rabuka announced a defence and security action plan centered on maritime training, equipment support and cyber/data protection.
• Seven agreements were signed spanning health, disaster management, education, agriculture and sports to broaden cooperation.
• India will establish a Defence Attaché post in Suva, schedule an Indian naval ship port call this year and gift two sea ambulances, 12 agricultural drones and two mobile soil testing labs.
• An MoU was concluded to build a 100-bed super-speciality hospital in Suva, alongside support for dialysis units, Jan Aushadhi Kendras and a Jaipur Foot camp.
• Fiji signaled interest in joining the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative as both countries condemned the Pahalgam attack, affirmed zero tolerance for terrorism and backed UN reforms including India’s Security Council bid.