Sushma Swaraj visits France, Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium on seven-day tour of Europe
Sushma Swaraj, India’s external affairs minister toured Italy, France, Luxembourg and Belgium to strengthen bilateral ties with the countries
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External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj embarked on a seven-day tour to Europe on 17 June to strengthen ties with Italy, France, Luxembourg and Belgium. She arrived in Brussels on Wednesday. Twitter/@MEAIndia
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Swaraj visited the Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte, on Monday and discussed forging and revitalising bilateral relationships. Twitter/@MEAIndia
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She also met with the Foreign Minister of Italy Enzo Moavero Milanesi on the same day and exchanged views on regional and global issues of mutual interest. Twitter/@MEAIndia
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Swaraj and her French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian agreed that India and France will work to shape a strong development partnership, in the fields of smart urbanisation, science and technology, clean energy, transportation, and infrastructure sectors on Tuesday. Twitter/@MEAIndia
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Swaraj also addressed a meeting of Indians in France and said that Indians in every part of the world carry India and its civilisational ethos in their hearts. Twitter/@MEAIndia
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In the third leg of her European tour, Swaraj met Luxembourg prime minister Xavier Bettel. Some of the topics they discussed were trade, investment and digital India. Twitter/@MEAIndia
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The external affairs minister also made a courtesy call on Grand Duke of Luxembourg Henri Albert Gabriel Felix Marie Guillaume on Wednesday. Twitter/@MEAIndia
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On Thursday in the last leg of her tour, Swaraj met the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker. According to MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar, they spoke about exchanged views on progress made on the understandings reached during the last India-EU Summit in 2017. Twitter/@MEAIndia
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