{"id":91155,"date":"2018-04-18T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=27f51c6d3f6430dc86cba5224736532d"},"modified":"2018-04-18T15:06:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T15:06:57","slug":"news-story-prime-minister-of-indias-visit-april-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=91155","title":{"rendered":"News story: Prime Minister of India’s visit, April 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated:<\/em> closer military ties announcement added<\/p>\n

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited the UK as an official Guest of Government, as part of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Foreign Secretary welcomes Prime Minister Modi to the UK<\/h3>\n

Foreign Secretary welcomes Prime Minister Modi<\/a><\/p>\n

The UK and India are bound together by numerous personal, professional, cultural and institutional ties, and also share a global outlook and a commitment to the rule of law, making us natural partners. Prime Minister Modi\u2019s visit will help strengthen this partnership further, improving the prosperity and security for the UK and India.<\/p>\n

Prime Ministers\u2019 meeting<\/h2>\n

Prime Minister Theresa May met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/a>. They held wide-ranging and constructive discussions and underlined our strategic partnership and growing convergence on regional and international issues.<\/p>\n

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Read the UK-India joint statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Memorandums of Understanding, agreements and partnership announcements<\/h2>\n

The UK and Indian governments announced a wide range of new initiatives and agreements.<\/p>\n

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View the full list of Memorandums of Understanding and agreements<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Health<\/h3>\n

The United Kingdom and India will extend their health partnership<\/a> and share research, knowledge and technology in areas of anti-microbial resistance, low cost health products and high yield crops.<\/p>\n

Research<\/h3>\n

The UK will continue to grow our already strong research partnership<\/a> with India with tech-focused investments that focus on issues of global importance including agriculture, clean energy, global health and the environment.<\/p>\n

Tech<\/h3>\n

A new UK-India Tech Partnership<\/a> will pair businesses, universities and others from different regions in the UK with states in India.<\/p>\n

Trade<\/h3>\n

A new India-UK Trade Partnership<\/a> will seek to improve the accessibility of trade and remove barriers for businesses in both countries.<\/p>\n

UK-India trade links<\/a><\/p>\n

Closer military ties<\/h2>\n

The UK and India will continue to strengthen their defence and security relationship<\/a>, working more closer together than ever before to tackle terrorism and threats to cyber security.<\/p>\n

UK-India cultural links<\/h2>\n

The UK and India are joined by a \u2018living bridge\u2019 as thousands of British and Indian people live, work and study together each year.<\/p>\n

UK-India cultural links<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the UK for the second time as an official Guest of Government on 18 April 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91178,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91155\/revisions\/91178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}