New Delhi: German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived here on Sunday on a three-day visit and will hold wide-ranging talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday to significantly scale up bilateral relations in an array of key sectors with special focus on boosting trade, security and defence ties.
Merkel, accompanied by a large delegation of several Cabinet Ministers and top officials, was received at the airport by Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha.
The talks between Modi and Merkel are likely to focus on deepening bilateral engagement in defence, security, education, renewable energy, high technology, skill development, science and technology, railways, water and waste management, urban development and agriculture.
India and Germany are strategic partners since 2001.
The German Chancellor’s visit here comes around six months after Modi’s tour to Germany and there have been expectations of “path-breaking results” from the summit-level Inter-Governmental Consultations (IGC) between the two leaders who have been pushing for unlocking the potential and taking the ties to higher trajectory. (PTI)
