Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Finnish PM Matti Vanhanen on India's Visit

Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen arrives on a two-day visit to India on Wednesday to strengthen bilateral relationship, particularly in trade and science and technology.

Vanhanen, begins his visit in Mumbai where he will meet Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh to explore investment and business opportunities in the state and cooperation in environment friendly technologies.

He will also call on Governor S M Krishna and have a luncheon meeting with a delegation of Indian energy and climate experts.

In Delhi, the visiting dignitary will attend the inaugural session of the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit on Thursday and meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh the same evening.

The two leaders will discuss relations between the two countries, issues of climate change, energy and regional and international matters of mutual importance.

Commerce Minister Kamal Nath will meet Vanhanen to discuss bilateral economic relations and trade, science and technology cooperation, the EU-India free trade negotiation and the Doha development agenda.

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