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Boris Johnson India Visit Highlights: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his British counterpart Boris Johnson on Friday pushed for closing the negotiations for a free trade agreement by the end of the year, and agreed on a new and expanded bilateral defence and security partnership.
The talks focussed on further intensifying the multi-faceted ties between India and UK. An immediate end to the violence in Ukraine, deepening of climate and energy partnership and keeping the Indo-Pacific region “free and open” figured among the discussions.
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Earlier today, PM Modi received UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a ceremonial reception at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi.
UK PM Boris Johnson arrived in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on April 21 at the start of his visit to India to hold in-depth talks on the UK and India’s strategic defence, diplomatic and economic partnership, aimed at bolstering close partnership and stepping up security cooperation in the Indo-Pacific.
“They (People of Gujarat) put on a fantastic welcome for us. It was absolutely extraordinary. I have never seen such a joyful reception.”
“I would have not gotten the same reception anywhere else in the world. It was amazing to see your (PM Modi’s) home state for the first time,” Johnson said. The British PM earlier today laid a wreath at Raj Ghat and paid a floral tribute to Mahatma Gandhi.
Boris Johnson on Thursday termed Mahatma Gandhi an extraordinary man who mobilized the principles of truth and non-violence to change the world for better.
Johnson became the first prime minister of the UK to visit the Sabarmati Ashram, the place from where Gandhi led India’s struggle for freedom from the British colonial rule for more than a decade.
The British Prime Minister said on Wednesday that his long-delayed visit to India will deepen the strategic trade, defence and people-to-people ties between the two countries.
