GUWAHATI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar said if land connectivity through Myanmar and sea connectivity through Bangladesh become viable on a commercial scale, a world all the way to Vietnam and Philippines, from Haiphong to Hazira and from Manila to Mundra will open up, creating an east-west lateral with sweeping benefits for the continent.
“It will not only build on the partnerships that we have with the ASEAN countries and Japan, but would actually make a difference to the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework that is now in the making. It is definitely within our ability to overcome geography and rewrite history if only we can get the policies and the economics right,” Jaishankar said at the two-day Nadi 3- Asian Confluence River Conclave that kicked off here on Saturday.
