Around the world with Narendra Modi

 

 

Important visits and their key factors

Canada:  India made nuclear deal with the Canada’s biggest producer of uranium, Cameco, signed a $280 million, five-year deal to supply uranium to fuel Indian nuclear reactors. The long-term deal announced later that Cameco will sell 7.1 million pounds of uranium to India, through 2020.

France: In April 2015 Modi visited France where he clenched a government to government deal for 36 Dassault Rafale fighter aircraft in fly-away condition.  The visit also clears the air of uncertainty regarding the French firm Areva setting up nuclear power plant in Jaitapur, India and signed an initial agreement between Nuclear Power Corporation of India and Areva.

Germany: In April 2015 Modi visited Germany where he held bilateral talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and also inaugurated Hannover Fair 2015-world’s largest industrial fair, where India was the partner country. Modi made strongest pitch for the Make in India initiative in Hannover fair. He said, “The entire world is looking at India. Demography, democracy and demand are attracting the world to India. There were announcements of strengthened cooperation in sectors like energy, skill development, science & technology and the Modi government’s initiatives like Digital India and Clean India.

Brazil (BRICS):  In the 6th BRICS summit held on 14–26 July in Fortaleza, Brazil, where the group agreed to establish the bank with a corpus of US$100 billion. The bank would be named the New Development Bank as suggested by the Indian side.

US:  Modi travelled to US from 27–30 September 2014, with his maiden address in the United Nations general assembly followed by attending a gala public reception by the Indian American community in New York’s Madison Square Garden before heading Washington, D.C. for the bilateral talk with Obama. In New York, Modi announced new visa and travel schemes that will make it easier for people to get to India. “People of Indian Origin” (PIO) cardholders will be able to get lifelong visas for travel to India. Modi also met several American business leaders and invited them to join his ambitious Make in India program in a bid to make India a manufacturing hub.