India- Fiji Relations | 28 Aug 2025

Source: PIB

The Prime Minister of Fiji, in his 3 day visit to India, held talks with the Indian Prime Minister to strengthen bilateral cooperation between the two nations.

• India agreed to provide training, equipment, and capacity building for Fiji’s military; collaborate on UN Peacekeeping Operations, military medicine, White Shipping Information Exchange and cybersecurity.
• Agreements include 100-bedded Super-Specialty Hospital, Jan Aushadhi, Heal in India, telemedicine under e-Sanjeevani.
  • Focus was made on Hindi-Sanskrit studies, Girmitiyas (Indian indentured labourers) recognition, sports, professional/student mobility. 
• Joint vision for Indo-Pacific peace, support India’s UNSC membership, counter-terrorism, climate action, sustainable development, South-South cooperation, reinforces India’s Act East Policy and Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI) counterbalancing Chinese influence in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs).
• The PM of India lauded Fijian PM for championing the ‘Ocean of Peace’ initiative, which seeks a stable, secure, and sustainable Indo-Pacific.

Fiji

• Fiji is a country and archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean & part of Pacific Island Countries (PICs), located north of Auckland, New Zealand, comprising over 300 islands, of which around 100 are inhabited. 
• Known as the “soft coral capital of the world,” it has over 4,000 sq km of coral reefs.
• Historically, sugarcane has been a major economic driver. 
• Fiji is a parliamentary democracy with a diverse population of Indigenous Fijians, Indians, Europeans, and other communities, and is home to the Sri Siva Subramaniya Swami Temple, the largest Hindu temple in the Southern Hemisphere.