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Johnson to visit India in bid to boost defense ties
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It will be Mr Johnson's first major trip to India as PM after previous visits were postponed due to Covid. Johnson to visit India in bid to boost defense ties
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will seek to put his domestic problems behind him when he visits India this week on a trip to strengthen links between the two countries which have not seen eye to eye over the response to the Ukraine crisis.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to make a long-delayed trip to India this week in a bid to strengthen security ties with the country.
He will meet his counterpart Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday, with talks focused on defense and trade.
It will be Mr Johnson's first major trip to India as PM after previous visits were postponed due to Covid.
The UK has been trying to persuade India to reduce its reliance on Moscow since Russia invaded Ukraine.
Last month, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss visited India in an attempt to get the country to impose stronger sanctions against Russia and to cooperate more closely on trade, defence, energy and food security.
India has not criticized Russia directly since it invaded Ukraine on 24 February and did not condemn the invasion at a United Nations vote on the issue.
