Overview

• Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Sitiveni Rabuka finalized a defence action plan focused on maritime security, cyber defence and data protection, with India pledging training, equipment and expertise.
• New measures include establishing a Defence Attaché at India’s mission in Suva to cover the wider Pacific, a planned Indian naval port call to Fiji this year and the gifting of two sea ambulances.
• Development commitments span a 100‑bed super‑speciality hospital in Suva, dialysis units, Jan Aushadhi Kendras for affordable medicines, 12 agricultural drones and two mobile soil testing labs.
• Both sides reaffirmed support for a free and inclusive Indo‑Pacific, Fiji signaled interest in joining India’s Indo‑Pacific Oceans Initiative and Rabuka advanced his ‘Ocean of Peace’ vision for the Pacific.
• The leaders condemned the Pahalgam terrorist attack, agreed on zero tolerance for terrorism and Fiji backed India’s push for UN Security Council reform, including support for India’s 2028–29 UNSC bid.