NEW DELHI: Malaysia and India have agreed on the mutual recognition of Covid-19 vaccination certificates.
Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Abdullah and his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar witnessed the exchange of documents between Malaysia’s High Commissioner to India Datuk Hidayat Abdul Hamid and Saurabh Kumar, Secretary East in the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), here on Friday.
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According to an MEA statement, both ministers agreed to hold the India-Malaysia Joint Commission’s next meeting in Malaysia.
The bilateral meeting between Saifuddin and Jaishankar was held on the sidelines of the Special Asean-India Foreign Ministers’ meeting, Bernama reported.
“Both ministers imparted fresh momentum to the relations with focus on economic and trade ties,” the statement said.
Regional and global developments were also discussed.
Jaishankar tweeted that he discussed expanding political, economic, defence, energy, consular, cultural and people-to-people relations.
