'India’s growth, Slovenia’s capacity complement each other', Presidents sign 7 MoUs for investment, sports, culture and more

Ljubljana, September 17: In the final leg of visit to Iceland, Switzerland and Slovenia, President Ram Nath Kovind reaching Ljubljana yesterday had a deep one-to-one discussion with President Pahor, exploring possible collaboration between the two nations on a wide range of issues.

 

The President commenced his engagements with visit to the Congress Square where he was received by President Borut Pahor of Slovenia and accorded a ceremonial welcome. The two Presidents also paid tributes at the Victims of All Wars. Kovind meanwhile said that he was honoured to pay the first ever State Visit from India to Slovenia.

 

Subsequently, the President led delegation level talks between the two sides. Speaking on the occasion, the President was happy to note that India-Slovenia bilateral trade was picking up and that Indian and Slovenian companies were finding new opportunities to do business together. "There is significant potential to increase bilateral trade by diversifying our trade basket", he said.

"India’s growth and Slovenia’s technology and manufacturing capacity complement each other. India is targeting to become a 5 trillion dollar economy by 2025. There are immense possibilities of cooperation between the two countries in the fields of high technology, especially clean technology, robotics and artificial intelligence", Kovind added.

Pointing out the India-Slovenia relations in multilateral fora, the President affirmed that India valued Slovenia’s support for India’s candidature for permanent membership in an expanded UN Security Council. "There is a need to strengthen multilateral institutions and we should work together on this issue", he said thanking President Pahor for Slovenia’s support for India’s permanent membership of the UN Security Council, further seeking his continued support for India’s membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group.

On the issue on Climate change and environment, the President urged Slovenia to join the International Solar Alliance and strengthen India’s efforts to combat climate change. India and Slovenia signed and exchanged seven MoUs and Programmes of Cooperation in the fields of Investment, Sports, Culture, River Rejuvenation, Science & Technology and Standards in the presence of the two Presidents.