MODI FIRST INDIAN PM TO VISIT SWEDEN SINCE RAJIV
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven walk from Sagerska House to the government building Rosenbad in Stockholm on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday held bilateral meetings with his counterparts from Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Norway and discussed ways to enhance ties with these Nordic countries in key areas such as trade and investment, and renewable energy.
Modi met the leaders of the four Nordic countries on the sidelines of the India-Nordic Summit here.
He met Danish Premier Lars Lokke Rasmussen and held talks on renewing and enhancing cooperation. The two leaders expressed their mutual desire to take the relationship forward, external affairs ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said.
After the bilateral meeting between Modi and Rasmussen, documents were exchanged between the two sides in areas of animal husbandry, dairying and urban development.
Modi also had an “excellent meeting” with his Finnish counterpart Juha Sipila. The two leaders discussed enhancing cooperation in trade and investment, renewable energy, space, waste management, start-up and education, Kumar said. “Prime Minister of Finland, Mr. Juha Sipila and I met in Stockholm today. We had excellent discussions on deepening avenues of cooperation between India and Finland,” he tweeted.
Modi also met Iceland Premier Katrin Jakobsdottir on the sidelines of the India-Nordic Summit. “We deliberated on ways to boost economic and people-to-people relations between our nations,” Modi said.
The leaders reviewed the full range of India-Iceland relations during their meeting, the PMO said. Later, he met his Norwegian counterpart Erna Solberg.
INDIA, SWEDEN SIGN JOINT ACTION PLAN
Aiming to build a win-win partnership through Sweden making use of the opportunities offered by India’s development programmes, the two countries on Tuesday signed a Joint Action Plan and an Innovation Partnership following a bilateral summit between Modi and his Swedish counterpart Stefan Lofven here.
According to Modi both sides also agreed to further strengthen security cooperation.