UK's Liz Truss to visit India on 2 - day visit

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UK's Liz Truss to visit India on 2 - day visit

This may include adverts from us and 3 rd parties based on our understanding. Her visit to India coincides also with the arrival of the Royal Navy s carrier strike group, which is taking part in a series of exercises off the coast of Mumbai with the Indian military. During the trip Liz Truss will tour the navy s flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth.

During her two-day trip to Delhi and Mumbai, she will set out agreements to increase investment ties between the two countries and technical support packages for the developing world. Last month, Beijing did not react well to the announcement of a new defence pact between the UK, the US and Australia. The pact was seen as a way to counter China s growing military assertiveness. In addition, tensions between India and China flared after 20 Chinese soldiers were killed last year in a disruption at the border with India.

Ms Truss said: Closer defence and security partnerships between the UK and India underpin deeper economic ties and make both countries safer as well as the wider region. We need to protect our sea and trade routes and, operating from a position of strength, be hard-headed in defending our interests and challenging unfair practices. Earlier this year Boris and Narendra Modi agreed the 2030 Roadmap on maritime security, cyber security and counter terrorism. Before her trip, the Foreign Office said Ms Truss would take forward work on the joint 2020 Roadmap. READ MORE: Macron baffled as UK 'led by bunch of inexperienced mavericks'