INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
INDIA AND UK
India and UK have prepared a visions of future relations i.e. Roadmap-2030E.
UK wants larger continuing engagement with India especially after Brexit.
Boris Johnson was the Chief Guest of the Republic Day parade on January 26, 2021 though he could not come due to pandemic.
Britain has applied to join CPTPP-Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific PartnershipE to increase its trade influence in the Pacific Region. Britain has dialogue partnership with ASEAN separate from European Union. Both developments might prove helpful for India in future if India has good partnership with Britian.
Britain is willing to share defence technology and share intelligence with India. It is willing to participate in the Information Fusion Centre which contributes to the Free and Open Indo-Pacific. (FOIP)E
UK’S Rolls Royce MT30 and Adour Mk-871 will prove helpful for the indigenous production of aircraft and ships in India.
India and UK need to be formed carfully crafted Free Trade Agreement.
UK will provide 3000 work visas to Indian professionals for next two years as a part of mobility and migration agreement E.
India has finally agreed to readmit people that Britain thinks are illegally residing there.
UK would like to promote educational partnership with India. Earlier UK’s student market in India has been taken over by Germany due to the stringent norms of UK.
UK has publically announced that it will have pound one billion trade and investment deal with India.
India is the second largest creator of job through FDI in UK while UK is far behind in investing in India as compared to Japan and Germany.
Climate change , green technology , services sector will be the matter of interest between India and UK.
The vaccine partnership between AstraZeneca-SII is being presented as model between India and UK.
India has objected to the discussion of the domestic Indian issues in the UK’s Parliament.
India will like to curb the ease of economic fugitives residing in UK.
UK has issues over the arbitration awards in case of Vodafone and Cairns energy which need to be resolved.