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NEW DELHI: European Council President Antonio Luis Santos da Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen volition sojourn India for the 16th India-EU acme connected Jan 27 and enactment successful the Republic Day parade arsenic main guests a time earlier, said govt successful an authoritative announcement.The acme volition beryllium the culmination of months of hard enactment by some sides to ramp up bilateral ties that has seen EU finalising a caller strategical docket for India amid mounting planetary uncertainties and its ain rupturing transatlantic alliance. Both sides are presently scrambling to finalise a escaped commercialized statement (FTA) that tops the database of expected deliverables from the summit, on with a ceremonial EU-India defence and information concern to facilitate defence concern practice contempt friction implicit India's ties with Russia.According to EU, trade, security, defence, cleanable modulation and people-to-people interaction volition apical the docket of the discussions. "Together, we stock the capableness and work to support the rules-based planetary order," said Costa. This volition besides beryllium the archetypal clip that the leaders volition be Republic Day parade celebrations arsenic guests of honour signalling, according to the 27-nation bloc, strengthening of bilateral ties betwixt EU and India.
