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Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

Diplomatic relations between India & Solomon Islands (SIs) were established in May 1987. SIs established its Honorary Consulate in New Delhi in 2003. Solomon Islands is planning to establish its resident Mission in New Delhi. Solomon Islands’ relations with India are friendly. Bilateral political interaction is comprehensive in multilateral/ international fora. Mission in Port Moresby is concurrently accredited to SIs.

 

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Cooperation to tackle the challenge of COVID-19 pandemic

In June 2022, India handed over 50,000 Covishield vaccines under bilateral initiative to SI. Subsequently in July 2022, India supplied USD 250,000 worth Covid-19 medicines, anti-virals surgical equipment to SIs.

Cooperation in Education/Scholarships/Capacity Building Other Exchanges

  • India has been offering assistance to SIs in capacity building by allocating 5 training slots p.a. in diverse fields under ITEC programme. SIs, however, did not fully utilize the slots in past years but in 2019-20, slots were fully utilized. ICCR allocated 4 scholarship slots for students from SIs under General Scholarship Scheme at Indian Universities/Institutes for academic year 2022-23.Consequent upon Tsunami which struck SI on April 2, 2007, GOI provided US$ 100,000 as Indias assistance for relief and rehabilitation of Tsunami victims. As part of GOI s Regional Assistance Initiatives for PICs, India offers an annual grant-in-aid of US$ 200,000 for development projects in SI. SI Govt has been requested to provide details of projects to be undertaken by them.An MOU for setting up Centre of Excellence in IT (CEIT) in Solomon Islands National University (SINU) was signed in Aug 2020. IT infrastructure courseware reached Honiara in Aug 2022. CDAC is in process to dispatch CDAC e-Mentor (e-Learning LMS) along with LILA (Learning Indian Languages through Artificial Intelligence), and will be installing it after IT Infrastructure is ready at site. Two CDAC experts will be deputed at IS-CEIT as Centre Head Trainer for 2 years upon operationalization of the Centre.Grants-in-Aid (GIA) proposal from SINU for US$ 1,54,086 regarding Relocation of Forestry Certificate Program to Poitete Campus, Kolombangara, Western Province of SIs was approved by Ministry.