The Asian Age

South Korea Prez in Delhi on 4- day visit

- AGE CORRESPOND­ENT

New Delhi: South Korean President Moon Jae- in reached New Delhi on Sunday evening to begin his four- day visit to India and is scheduled to attend a business event on Monday and hold talks with PM Narendra Modi on Tuesday.

South Korean President Moon Jae- in reached New Delhi on Sunday evening to begin his four- day visit to India and is scheduled to attend a business event on Monday and hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday. The two leaders will also jointly visit a manufactur­ing Plant of South Korean manufactur­ing giant Samsung in UP’s Noida near Delhi on Monday. He visited the Akshardham temple in New Delhi on Sunday.

On his arrival in New Delhi on Sunday evening, the South Korean President was warmly received by minister of state ( MoS) for external affairs Gen. V. K. Singh ( Retd).

MEA spokespers­on Raveesh Kumar tweeted, “Indispensa­ble partner in our “Act East” strategy! On his first State visit to India, President of the Republic of Korea, Moon Jae- in was warmly

received by MoS

@ Gen_ VKSingh.”

The situation in the Korean peninsula is expected to figure prominentl­y in talks between President Moon and PM Modi on Tuesday. Trade ties are also expected to receive a huge boost from the visit. The South Korean side has already earmarked a whopping US$ 10 billion as “Financing arrangemen­t for infrastruc­ture developmen­t in India” ahead of the Presidenti­al visit.

According to the schedule, the South Korean President is visiting the Akshardham Temple in Delhi on Sunday evening. External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj will call on President Moon on Monday morning. He will attend a meeting of the India– Korea Business Forum in New Delhi on Monday afternoon, followed by a visit to the Gandhi Smriti and then a visit to the Samsung Plant in Noida that evening along with PM Modi.

On Tuesday, the two leaders will hold delegation­level talks in the capital followed by exchange of agreements between the two sides. This will be followed his participat­ion at an Indo- South Korean CEOs roundtable conference. That evening, the South Korean President will meet President Ram Nath Kovind.

 ?? — PTI ?? Actress Aditi Rao Hydari during an event in New Delhi on Sunday.
— PTI Actress Aditi Rao Hydari during an event in New Delhi on Sunday.
 ?? — PTI ?? South Korean President Moon Jae- in with First Lady Kim Jung- sook visit Akshardham Temple in New Delhi on Sunday.
— PTI South Korean President Moon Jae- in with First Lady Kim Jung- sook visit Akshardham Temple in New Delhi on Sunday.

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