Tokyo, Aug. 29 -- Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on Friday underlined that discussions between India and Japan during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit were centred on bilateral cooperation and not on issues related to any third country.

Addressing a special MEA press briefing in Tokyo, Misri said, "At this point in time, our discussion with Japan was about our bilateral issues. We were not discussing issues between, either one of us, in any third country. Naturally, what is happening in the rest of the world is discussed. But today's focus remained squarely on our bilateral cooperation."

He was responding to a question on whether US-India trade tensions and India's ties with the US and China figured in the bilateral talks, particula...