UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil the place the 2 leaders mentioned points of the connection between each international locations.
In a publish on X Starmer expressed that each leaders held a productive assembly. In a big announcement, he knowledgeable that the 2 international locations have “introduced plans to relaunch UK-India commerce talks”.
The UK-India Commerce talks had been halted and have been set to renew after the completion of elections in the UK.
Starmer famous, “A brand new commerce deal will assist jobs and prosperity within the UK – and signify a step ahead in our mission to ship progress and alternative throughout the nation”.
The 2 international locations within the bilateral assembly mentioned varied points of the India-UK partnership.
In a press assertion by the Ministry of Exterior Affairs, a big growth was highlighted. PM Modi famous the significance of addressing the problem of financial offenders from India in the UK.
Beforehand in an interview with ANI, Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar mentioned that India has strongly offered its case regarding the extradition of fugitive financial offenders which have fled the nation, including that the UK must take a accountable view of the matter as it’ll hamper its repute and the nation will find yourself being seen as a haven for tax evaders and tax defaulters.
In latest occasions, financial offenders from India have gone to the UK. Fugitive Nirav Modi is at the moment in a UK jail awaiting extradition and liquor baron Vijay Mallya, one other fugitive accused in a financial institution mortgage default case of over Rs 9,000 crore, is within the UK.
The assembly between PM Modi and British PM Keir Starmer thus turned important because it was the primary assembly between the 2 Prime Ministers. PM Modi congratulated Starmer on his assumption of workplace.
Starmer additionally prolonged heat needs to PM Modi on his historic third time period in workplace, the assertion mentioned.
Expressing satisfaction on the progress within the bilateral relationship, the 2 Prime Ministers reaffirmed their dedication to strengthen the India-UK Complete Strategic Partnership with a give attention to financial system, commerce, new and rising applied sciences, analysis and innovation, inexperienced finance and people-to-people contacts.
