India, Aug. 30 -- Indian PM Narendra Modi, who is currently visiting Tokyo, on Friday announced that the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are collaborating for the lunar mission Chandrayaan-5.

"We welcome the agreement reached between ISRO and JAXA for cooperation in the Chandrayaan-5 mission," Modi said during a joint press statement with his Japanese counterpart Shigeru Ishiba, in Tokyo.

In May this year, ISRO and JAXA, the space agency of Japan, jointly conducted the third face-to-face Technical Interface Meeting (TIM-3), towards the Chandrayaan-5/LUPEX mission, in ISRO Headquarters, Bengaluru.

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