Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, April 20: United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson is scheduled to vist India for a two-day visit between April 21 and 22. The PM will be arriving in Ahmedabad on April 21 and leave for Delhi on the same day.
According to news agency ANI, the UK PM is scheduled for wreath-laying at Gujarat’s Rajghat who is called on by External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar. Post that he will meet PM Narendra Modi and then leave for London.
“The visit will begin from Ahmedabad on Thursday (21st April) to meet with leading businesses and discuss the UK and India’s thriving commercial, trade and people links. This will be the first time a UK Prime Minister will visit Gujarat, India’s fifth-largest state and the ancestral home of around half of the British-Indian population in the UK,” an official release stated three days ago.
According to the sources, he may focus on strengthening security co-operation between India and the UK in the Indo-Pacific region as well as strategic defence.
Notably, India has maintained a strategic neutrality toward Russia throughout the Ukraine conflict. Modi has expressed worry about the use of violence against civilians, such as in Bucha, yet India has chosen to abstain on key UN votes condemning Russia. This year, Modi met with Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov.
