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India and the Nordic countries are committed to “democracy, regularisation of instrumentality and multilateralism”, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi present connected Tuesday, speaking aft the Third India-Nordic Summit.
The summit, wherever Mr. Modi met leaders of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, ended with a determination to upgrade ties betwixt India and the 5 northern-most European countries to a ‘Green Technology and Innovation Strategic Partnership’. In particular, they volition enactment connected initiatives for sustainable energy, maritime practice and polar probe successful the arctic region, the leaders said.
“Our shared committedness to democracy, the regularisation of law, and multilateralism makes america earthy partners. And our shared priorities successful exertion and sustainability marque our narration afloat of opportunities,” said Mr. Modi, lasting with Prime Ministers of Norway (Jonas Gahr Støre), Finland (Petteri Orpo), Iceland (Kristrún Mjöll Frostadóttir), Sweden (Ulf Kristersson) and Denmark’s acting Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. Mr. Modi has held bilateral meetings with each the leaders successful the past fewer days.
His gathering with Ms. Frostadóttir, 1 of the world’s youngest leaders, was a archetypal since she was elected successful 2024, and Mr. Modi is understood to person invited the Icelandic person to sojourn India adjacent year. “The satellite needs much adjacent sambandh (relations),” Ms. Frostadóttir said during the property meet, referring to the connection that holds the aforesaid meaning successful Hindi and Icelandic.
During the property statements, each of the leaders spoke astir their imaginativeness for India-Nordic ties. Warning that geopolitical uncertainty would proceed for the foreseeable future, Mr. Orpo said that India and the Nordic countries indispensable proceed the speech connected planetary turbulence and announced that the adjacent India-Nordic Summit would beryllium hosted by Finland. Increasing commercialized – fixed that Denmark, Sweden, and Finland are portion of the India-European Union Free Trade Agreement announced successful January 2026, and Norway and Iceland are portion of the India-European Free Trade Agreement – was besides portion of the discussions. India astatine contiguous does a combined commercialized of $19 cardinal with the 5 Nordic countries combined, a comparatively debased fig compared to different European countries and regions.
The acme was Mr. Modi’s past engagement earlier leaving for Italy for the past limb of his six-day five-nation circuit to UAE and Europe.
A associated connection issued by each the leaders noted that India and the Nordic countries request to deepen their engagement to code planetary challenges, and each 5 Nordic leaders backed India’s bid for a imperishable spot successful a reformed UN Security Council, and welcomed India’s exertion for Nuclear Suppliers Group membership.
“As leaders of vibrant democracies and ample unfastened marketplace economies, they underscored their shared involvement successful fostering a robust and resilient planetary bid based connected planetary instrumentality that promotes peace, stability, inclusive economical maturation and sustainable development,” the associated connection issued aft the acme said. It committed to upholding planetary instrumentality including the United Nations Charter, and shared values including “democracy, freedom, quality rights, sex equality”.
Given evident differences implicit the Russia-Ukraine war, wherever India has not criticised Moscow frankincense far, the leaders lone “expressed concern” implicit the war, and supported efforts for a conscionable and lasting bid done “dialogue and diplomacy, based connected the principles of the UN charter and of planetary law”. They expressed akin concerns implicit the humanitarian concern successful Gaza, and backed the U.S.-led Board of Peace for the ceasefire program endorsed by the UN Security Council successful November 2025. The leaders called for the U.S.-Israel struggle with Iran to “de-escalate” and for state of navigation and planetary travel of commerce done the Strait of Hormuz.
In a beardown paragraph connected terrorism, India and the Nordic countries condemned the Pahalgam panic onslaught and the incidental adjacent Red Fort successful New Delhi past year. They agreed to cooperate connected combating panic financing astatine the UN and Financial Action Task Force, forestall panic groups from utilizing caller and emerging technology, and tackle violent recruitment.
Denmark’s Mr. Frederiksen, who had hosted the erstwhile India-Nordic Summit successful Copenhagen, said that India arsenic a large powerfulness and the Nordic countries, who unneurotic constituted a mediate power, indispensable prosecute more. “The aged satellite bid is changing rapidly, it’s not going successful the close absorption and truthful it is adjacent much important than earlier that partners who truly judge successful ideology really enactment together,” helium said.
