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UK PM Boris Johnson to be chief guest at India s Republic Day celebrations
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will travel to India in January, his first bilateral visit since taking office.
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Updated: Dec 15, 2020, 03:33 PM IST
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Tuesday confirmed that PM Boris Johnson will attend India s Republic Day celebrations in January 2021 as chief guest. I m pleased that PM Boris Johnson has invited PM Modi to join the UK-hosted G7 summit next year. UK PM Johnson has also accepted the very generous invitation to attend India s Republic Day celebrations in January, which is a great honour, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said.
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This has been confirmed by UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab
NEW DELHI: UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Tuesday confirmed that PM Boris Johnson will attend India’s Republic Day celebrations in January 2021 as chief guest.
During talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in New Delhi, visiting UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab confirmed that PM Johnson has accepted India’s invite to be the chief guest at the Republic Day Parade next month.
“I m pleased that PM Boris Johnson has invited PM Modi to join the UK-hosted G7 summit next year. UK PM Johnson has also accepted the very generous invitation to attend India s Republic Day celebrations in January, which is a great honour,” UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said.
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United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is on a four-day visit to India, arrived in New Delhi on Monday to hold talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on bilateral, regional, and international issues of mutual interest.
The PM is also inviting India, along with Australia and South Korea, to attend the G7 summit of powerful nations in the UK next summer.
Mr Johnson will also become the second British leader since Indian independence to attend the annual Republic Day parade in New Delhi as Guest of Honour. The last British PM to attend was Sir John Major in 1993.
The UK and India’s growing trade and investment relationship is worth around £24 billion a year and supports more than half a million jobs, according to the UK Government.
It comes after Mr Johnson made a gaffe during Prime Minister’s Questions last week in which he appeared to confuse large farmers’ protests in India with the ongoing conflict with Pakistan.