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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz flew kites astatine the International Kite Festival organised astatine the Sabarmati Riverfront connected Monday.The 2 leaders attended the International Kite Festival, with visuals showing them interacting with participants and joining the colourful celebrations that drew kite enthusiasts from India and abroad.
Held up of Makar Sankranti, the three-day International Kite Festival volition reason connected January 14 and features 135 planetary kite flyers from 50 countries, on with 65 participants from crossed India and 871 section flyers from Gujarat.Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to the Sabarmati Ashram successful Ahmedabad up of the festival’s inauguration.Merz arrived successful India connected Sunday for a two-day authoritative sojourn from January 12 to 13, his archetypal since assuming office, and was welcomed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi astatine the Sabarmati Ashram. The 2 leaders are scheduled to clasp bilateral talks from 11.15 americium astatine Mahatma Mandir successful Gandhinagar, wherever they volition reappraisal advancement successful the India–Germany Strategic Partnership, which precocious marked its 25th anniversary.The discussions volition absorption connected strengthening practice successful commercialized and investment, technology, education, skilling and mobility, arsenic good arsenic advancing collaboration successful defence and security, science, innovation and research, greenish and sustainable development, and people-to-people ties.
PM Modi and Merz volition besides speech views connected determination and planetary issues and prosecute with concern and manufacture leaders from some countries.The sojourn is expected to physique connected ongoing high-level governmental engagement and reaffirm a shared committedness to a forward-looking partnership. On January 13, Chancellor Merz volition sojourn Bosch and the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE) earlier departing for Germany.PM Modi and Merz past held talks connected the sidelines of the G7 Summit successful Canada, wherever they agreed to further grow the bilateral strategical partnership. The sojourn besides comes up of the India–EU Summit scheduled for January 27.German Ambassador to India Philipp Ackermann precocious underscored practice successful defence and security, saying that “the strategical concern betwixt the nations has grown implicit the years.”
