Mexico City, June 9: India and Mexico have agreed to raise their ‘Privileged Partnership’ right into a strategic one throughout talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto right here throughout which Mexico additionally prolonged help for India‘s NSG bid.
Mexico has additionally prolonged help to India‘s International Solar Alliance initiative, which was launched on the Paris local weather talks final 12 months.
Modi, in a press assertion after holding talks with Nieto, thanked him for his nation’s assist to India’s NSG membership and for the Solar Alliance.
“I thank President Pena Nieto for Mexico’s optimistic and constructive help for India’s membership of the NSG,” he stated.
“We now have agreed to work and develop a roadmap of concrete outcomes to improve our ties to a Strategic Partnership,” Modi mentioned.
Each side mentioned methods to spice up commerce and funding. Modi was in Mexico City on a five-hour working go to.
Modi stated the Central American nation is a vital accomplice for India’s power safety.
“We at the moment are trying to transfer past a buyer-seller relationship, and right into a long-term partnership.”
“There’s potential to broaden our industrial and funding, and Science and Expertise partnerships in new areas,” Modi stated, including that either side agreed to seek out methods to deepen cooperation in Area, and science and expertise.
“We can even prioritise concrete initiatives in areas of agricultural analysis; bio-technology; waste administration; catastrophe warning and administration, and photo voltaic vitality. I wish to notably thank President Pena Nieto for his assist to the International Solar Alliance. It’ll rework the worldwide canvas for photo voltaic expertise, particularly for growing and Small Island Developing countries,” he stated.
In response to a joint assertion, either side underscored the rising significance of diversifying the financial exchanges to advertise commerce and funding to a degree comparable to their true potential.
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