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India and the U.K. are well-positioned to conception a caller future-oriented and mutually beneficial concern connected the backmost of their recently firmed-up broad commercialized woody and the defence concern roadmap, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said connected Thursday (June 4, 2026).
He made the remarks during a gathering with visiting British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper.
Highlighting ‘remarkable developments’ successful the bilateral ties successful caller months, the External Affairs Minister pointed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sojourn to the U.K. past July, followed by U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s travel to India successful October.
Dr. Jaishankar highlighted the finalisation of the India-U.K. Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the adoption of a broad strategical concern and the defence concern roadmap arsenic large achievements.
“We are contiguous good positioned to physique a caller future-oriented and mutually beneficial partnership,” helium said.
Dr. Jaishankar said CETA addresses galore concerns astir creating resilient proviso chains and addressing concerns successful areas of trade, energy, nutrient and economical security.
“Our narration has moved from being a humanities and possibly taste transportation to being a forward-looking road of shared economical ambitions and precocious technology,” helium said.
The External Affairs Minister besides made a notation of India-U.K. Vision 2035 and its 5 pillars, specified arsenic growth, exertion and innovation, defence and security, clime and cleanable energy, and education.
He besides referred to the University of Liverpool’s determination to unfastened a field successful India.
In her remarks, Ms. Cooper said the India-U.K. concern has gone from “strength to strength” successful caller years and cited CETA arsenic 1 of the cardinal pillars of economical growth.
Crucially, our committedness to economical information is reflected successful enactment connected captious minerals, she said.
The India-U.K. Critical Minerals Global Supply Chain Observatory (GSCO) was formally launched connected Thursday (June 4, 2026) by Minister of Coal and Mines G. Kishan Reddy and Foreign Secretary Cooper.
The motorboat marks a “significant milestone” successful the increasing India-UK concern connected captious minerals and proviso concatenation resilience, reinforcing practice successful securing the resources indispensable for cleanable vigor transitions, precocious manufacturing, electrical mobility and emerging technologies, according to a connection issued by India.
The inaugural is expected to service arsenic a invaluable level for strengthening India-U.K. practice successful captious minerals and supporting informed decision-making for resilient, unafraid and sustainable planetary proviso chains, it said.
Speaking connected the occasion, Ms. Cooper underscored the value of India-U.K. collaboration successful processing resilient, diversified and sustainable captious mineral proviso chains.
She stated that greater entree to captious minerals and improved information-sharing are successful the communal involvement of some nations and tin lend importantly to economical maturation and proviso concatenation security.
