British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will pay an official visit to India on April 21-21, the Prime Minister’s Office reported on Saturday, Trend reports citing TASS.
"The Prime Minister will visit India this week to deepen our long-term partnership for peace and prosperity with a fellow leading democracy, in the face of global economic challenges and threats from autocratic states," it said.
On April 21, he will visit Ahmedabad "to meet with leading businesses and discuss the UK and India’s thriving commercial, trade and people links". Gujarat is India’s fifth largest state "and the ancestral home of around half of the British-Indian population in the UK," it stressed.
On April 22, Johnson will have talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. "The leaders will hold in-depth talks on the UK and India’s strategic defence, diplomatic and economic partnership, aimed at bolstering our close partnership and stepping up security co-operation in the Indo-Pacific," the Office said.
Last year, the UK and India agreed a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, "announcing more than Ј530m in investment into the UK and committing to a deeper bilateral relationship across trade, health, climate, defence and security, and connecting our people," it reiterated.