{"id":12397,"date":"2022-04-21T08:21:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T08:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamslivenews.com\/?p=12397"},"modified":"2022-04-21T08:31:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T08:31:55","slug":"boris-johnson-visits-india-gujarat-announce-deals-worth-1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamslive.com\/news\/2022\/04\/boris-johnson-visits-india-gujarat-announce-deals-worth-1-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson visits India, Gujarat announce deals worth \u00a31 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, on Thursday, arrived in Ahmadabad, Gujarat, to make deals that would create 11,000 jobs in Britain.<\/h2>\n

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The UK PM’s schedule is all set out.\u00a0 On day 1, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson<\/a> will be in Gujarat where he is set to announce investments in science and technology collaborations. He will meet PM Narendra Modi in Delhi on Friday.<\/div>\n
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On Friday, he will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi and hold talks on economic, security, and defense ties.\u00a0 The UK prime minister wishes to strike new economic deals between Britain and its huge former colony worth over \u00a31 billion in areas including software engineering and health. Downing Street had declared that it would seal two-way investment deals worth more than \u00a31 billion ($1.3 billion), during Johnson’s visit to India, creating almost 11,000 jobs in Britain. The visit will “deepen the strategic trade, defense and people-to-people ties between our two countries”, the UK prime minister told his parliament before leaving London<\/p>\n

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He also seeks to persuade India away from Russia<\/a> in response to the invasion of Ukraine. Johnson\u2019s spokesman, Max Blain, maintained that Britain wants to \u201cprovide alternative options for defense procurement and energy for India to diversify its supply chains away from Russia\u201d without lecturing the government on what course of action was best for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Boris Johnson visited Mahatma Gandhi’s Sabarmati Ashram on Thursday morning. He was escorted by the Gujarat chief minister and was gifted with a copy of ‘The Spirit’s Pilgrimage’ written by Madeleine Slade (or Mirabehn), who was a British supporter of Indian independence and a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi.\u00a0 Boris Johnson tries his hand at the \u2018charkha\u2019 at Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.\u00a0 After leaving Sabarmati Ashram, he wrote, \u2018Such simple principles of truth and non-violence.”<\/div>\n
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\u201cIt is an immense privilege to come to the Ashram of this extraordinary man, and to understand how he mobilized such simple principles of truth and non-violence to change the world for the better,” read the message by UK PM Boris Johnson at Gandhi Ashram, Sabarmati, Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Boris Johnson in Gujarat, video displays the warm welcome!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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UK PM #BorisJohnson<\/a> tries the Charkha after touchdown in #Gujarat<\/a>; Meet with PM Modi tomorrow pic.twitter.com\/MoCcEy7tSy<\/a><\/p>\n

— Hindustan Times (@htTweets) April 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n