Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold wide-ranging discussions with his counterpart from the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, including on further strengthening of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP), during his two-day visit, starting from July 23.
“This will be the Prime Minister’s fourth visit to the United Kingdom since assuming office. He has visited previously in 2015, 2018 and he was there in 2021 for the COP26 Summit in Glasgow. Within the last year itself, Prime Minister Modi and Prime Minister Starmer have already met twice, first on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro last year and more recently, just last month in June in Kananaskis in Canada on the sidelines of the G7 Summit and they have also been in touch on the phone a number of times,” said Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri while addressing a special media briefing ahead of PM Modi’s two-nation visit to the UK and Maldives.
Besides exchanging views on issues of regional and global importance, Prime Minister Modi and Starmer will review the entire gamut of India-UK bilateral relations with a specific focus on trade and economy, technology and innovation, defence and security, climate, health, education and people-to-people ties. PM Modi will also call on King Charles III and interact with the business leaders and the Indian community in the United Kingdom.
“Apart from the Summit level engagements, there are regular engagements at the level of the External Affairs Minister and his counterpart, the British Foreign Secretary. There are several other institutional mechanisms at ministerial level, dealing with strategic issues, financial, economic, energy related issues as well as science and technology. In contemporary times, the sectors of business, technology, research, education, innovation, the knowledge economy have emerged as key pillars of our bilateral cooperation.”
