IANS | 20 Oct, 2018
Vice President M. Venkaiah
Naidu, who is attending the 12th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit here
held bilateral meetings with Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa and
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras respectively and called for
strengthening Indias ties with both the countries.
Naidu met both the leaders on Thursday.
During
his meeting with Costa, Naidu called for India-Portugal collaboration
in new areas of cutting-edge technology. He said that defence, space,
infrastructure and startups are areas that offer potential business
opportunities.
Naidu briefed him about Modi government's
developmental programmes and said that bilateral trade was on the rise
and that Portuguese companies were encouraged by the potential of the
Indian market.
During the meeting with Tsipras, Naidu expressed
satisfaction over the regular high-level contacts between the two
countries. Both the leaders agreed to further strengthen the bilateral
ties through greater economic and people to people exchanges.
Briefing
the Greek Prime Minister about India's economic situation Naidu called
for greater tourism flows between the two countries.
