Overview

• Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Sitiveni Rabuka finalized a plan to expand defence ties with training, equipment support and stronger maritime security.
• Seven MoUs were signed across sectors including health, disaster management, education and sports to broaden bilateral cooperation.
• India announced a 100-bed super-speciality hospital in Suva plus Jan Aushadhi centres, dialysis units and a Jaipur Foot camp.
• New measures include creating a Defence Attaché post in Suva, a planned Indian naval port call and gifts of two sea ambulances, 12 agri-drones and two mobile soil labs.
• Both governments reaffirmed a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific as Fiji signaled interest in the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative, while jointly condemning the Pahalgam attack and pledging counterterror cooperation.