Tuyên bố báo chí của nhóm G4 (Brazil, Đức, Ấn Độ và Nhật Bản) ngày 11 tháng 2 năm 2011

Joint Press Statement of Ministerial Meeting of the G4 countries (Brazil, Germany, India and Japan)

February 11, 2011

1. The Minister of External Affairs of India, the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany, the Minister of External Relations of Brazil and the State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Japan met in New York on 11 February 2011, for the second time in the last six months, to exchange views on Security Council reform.

2. The Ministers agreed that as democracies with shared political values including respect for the rule of law, respect for human rights and a commitment to multilateralism, the G4 countries hold a number of common positions on the major contemporary challenges to international peace and security. They noted with satisfaction the important contributions being made by their countries to the working of the Security Council and to the maintenance of international peace and security. They reaffirmed their willingness and capacity to take on major responsibilities in this regard. They stated that the international system would benefit from the expansion of the UN Security Council, which would ensure that the Council is truly reflective of current geopolitical realities and make it stronger, more representative, legitimate, effective and efficient.

3. In this context, the G4 countries reiterated their commitments as aspiring new permanent members of the UN Security Council, as well as their support for each other's candidatures. The G4 countries also reaffirmed their view of the importance of Africa to be represented in the permanent membership of an enlarged Council. They also reconfirmed the need for additional non-permanent members and improvement in the Council’s working methods.

4. The Ministers expressed gratitude for the efforts made by the President of the General Assembly, H.E. Mr. Joseph Deiss and Ambassador Zahir Tanin, the Chair of the intergovernmental negotiations, for their facilitating role in the negotiations among the Member States. The Ministers stressed that the ongoing intergovernmental negotiations made it clear that the overwhelming majority of the Member States support expansion in both the permanent and non-permanent categories of the Security Council membership, as well as increased representation of developing countries in both.

5. The Ministers recognized that there is widespread support for a Member-States driven initiative to take the process of the much-needed reform of the Security Council towards a concrete outcome in the current session of the UN General Assembly.

6. The Ministers, therefore, agreed to press ahead, with all necessary steps to achieve at the earliest an expansion in both the permanent and non-permanent membership categories of the Security Council. Towards this goal, the G4 countries reaffirmed their readiness to reach out to other countries and to work in close cooperation with them in a spirit of flexibility.

7. Finally, the Ministers agreed to meet again within the coming quarter to review progress on the decisions taken.

S. M. Krishna
Minister of External Affairs of India

Guido Westerwelle
Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany

Antonio de Aguiar Patriota
Minister of External Relations of Brazil

Takeaki Matsumoto
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Japan

New York
February 11, 2011 

 

Source: http://meaindia.nic.in/mystart.php?id=530517168

Ấn Độ vượt qua Trung Quốc trở thành thị trường thu hút nhiều nhất đầu tư của các công ty Nhật Bản

India overtakes China as most attractive market for Japanese firms

PTI, Jan 5, 2011

TOKYO: India has overtaken China as the most attractive overseas investment destination for Japanese manufacturers over the next decade amid increased labor costs in China, according to a survey.
China, however, remained the most popular investment destination over the next three years in the survey conducted last summer, having retained top spot since fiscal 1992 when the state-backed financial institution began conducting the survey by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.
The result suggests an increasing number of Japanese companies are aiming to diversify foreign investment amid caution about rising labor costs and anti-Japanese demonstrations in China.
An additional survey conducted in November in the wake of bilateral tension over the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea provided further evidence of the trend.
China no longer dominates Japanese foreign investment and Japanese companies "are increasingly turning their attention to emerging markets as India and Vietnam," said Toshiharu Mimura, a senior economist at JBIC.
In the survey conducted in the summer of 2010, in which multiple responses were allowed, 74.9 per cent of the 605 Japanese manufacturers selected India as their investment destination over the next 10 years, compared with 71.7 per cent that chose China. In the previous year, China was first and India second.
As a destination over a shorter period, China came top at 77.3 per cent, followed by India at 60.5 per cent, Vietnam at 32.2 per cent, Thailand at 26.2 per cent, and Brazil at 24.6 per cent.
The companies that chose China and India said they viewed the two markets as having high growth potential.
Many companies, however, expressed concern over rising personnel costs in China amid the country's rapid economic growth, as well as labor issues, apparently reflecting a recent rise in disputes between Japanese firms and Chinese workers seeking wage hikes.
In the follow-up study to gauge the investment stance of Japanese companies after maritime collisions between a Chinese trawler and Japanese patrol boats near the disputed Senkaku Islands in September, 24.8 per cent responded that China was not as attractive as before, while 46.9 said it was important to reduce their dependence on China and diversify investment risks.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/India-overtakes-China-as-most-attractive-market-for-Japanese-firms/articleshow/7222416.cms#ixzz1ADcOFWuV

Ấn Độ sẽ ký các hiệp định thương mại với Nhật Bản, Malaysia và EU vào nửa đầu năm 2011

India to sign trade pact with Japan, Malaysia and EU in first half of 2011

 

The Hindu
December 24, 2010

India will open its trade in goods and services with Malaysia, Japan and the European Union in the first half of 2011, Union Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said here.

Talking to newsmen here, Mr. Sharma said the first half of next year would witness signing of comprehensive market and investment promotion agreements with Japan, Malaysia and the EU. India has already signed a framework agreement for the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) with Malaysia and concluded negotiations for a similar pact with Japan

With the EU, which has a bilateral trade of $76 billion with India, differences had cropped up on the level of opening of the market, dairy farming, issues pertaining to child labour and environment. After the India-EU summit attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Brussels on December 9, the negotiations have been intensified and are likely to be concluded by March next with a formal agreement coming by spring time. Mr. Sharma informed that India had launched negotiations for comprehensive economic partnership agreement with New Zealand and Canada. India had already entered into comprehensive market opening pacts with Singapore, South Korea and 10-nation economic bloc ASEAN.

Similarly, Mr. Sharma said a national policy aimed at making India a manufacturing hub leading to creation of more jobs and boosting economic growth would roll out by the end of next month. “We are in dialogue with the Planning Commission and it is my expectation that by the end of January 2011, we should be able to roll out the National Manufacturing Policy,'' Mr. Sharma said.

He said the new policy seeks to attract high-technology from advanced economies. “Our aim is to make India one of the manufacturing hubs. It will create jobs and boost economic growth,'' he remarked. Mr. Sharma said the Commerce Ministry had recently sent out a note for inter-Ministerial consultation for formulating the policy.

(Source: http://www.thehindu.com/business/article977131.ece; accessed 25 Dec. 2010)