Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has today begun his
second visit to the UK as an official Guest of
Government, as part of the Commonwealth
Heads of Government Meeting.
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. The
visit will help strengthen this partnership further,
improving the prosperity and security for the UK and
India.
Foreign Secretary welcomes Prime Minister Modi to the UK
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. Today’s
visit will help strengthen this partnership further,
improving the prosperity and security for the UK and
India.
Prime Ministers’ meeting
Prime Minister
Theresa May met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
They held wide-ranging and constructive discussions and
underlined our strategic partnership and growing
convergence on regional and international issues.
Memorandums of Understanding, agreements and partnership
announcements
The UK and Indian governments announced a wide range of
new initiatives and agreements.
Health
The United Kingdom and India will extend their
health partnership and share research,
knowledge and technology in areas of anti-microbial
resistance, low cost health products and high yield
crops.
Research
The UK will continue to grow our already
strong research partnership with India with
tech-focused investments that focus on issues of global
importance including agriculture, clean energy, global
health and the environment.
Tech
A new UK-India
Tech Partnership will pair businesses,
universities and others from different regions in the
UK with states in India.
Trade
A new India-UK
Trade Partnership will seek to improve the
accessibility of trade and remove barriers for
businesses in both countries.
Closer military ties
The UK and India will continue to
strengthen their defence and security relationship,
working more closer together than ever before to tackle
terrorism and threats to cyber security.
UK-India cultural links
The UK and India are joined by a ‘living bridge’ as
thousands of British and Indian people live, work and
study together each year.
