Modi, Starmer call for a ‘two-state solution’ to Israel-Palestine conflict

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his U.K. counterpart Keir Starmer connected Thursday (October 9, 2025) gave a associated telephone for a “two-state solution” to extremity the Israel-Palestine struggle and expressed enactment for U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid program for Gaza.

Mr. Modi besides spoke with Mr. Trump implicit the telephone connected Thursday (October 9) evening and congratulated him connected the Gaza bid initiative. “Spoke to my friend, President Trump and congratulated him connected the occurrence of the historical Gaza bid plan. Also reviewed the bully advancement achieved successful commercialized negotiations. Agreed to enactment successful adjacent interaction implicit the coming weeks,” helium posted connected X.

Mr. Modi, who welcomed Mr. Starmer to India, said the concern betwixt India and the U.K. serves arsenic an “important pillar of planetary stability” successful the existent turbulent planetary scenario. The 2 leaders besides called for “a conscionable and lasting peace” successful war-ravaged Ukraine.

“India and the U.K. are earthy partners. In the existent epoch of planetary instability, this concern remains a captious pillar of planetary stableness and economical progress,” said Mr. Modi, adding that the authorities is moving to harvester the U.K.’s concern expertise and R&D with India’s endowment and scale.

Mr. Modi highlighted the value of “dialogue and diplomacy” successful resolving the conflicts successful Gaza and Ukraine, and said India and U.K. are “committed” to heighten “maritime information cooperation” successful the Indo-Pacific region.

Resolution of the enduring conflicts successful West Asia and Ukraine featured successful a associated connection issued astatine the extremity of official-level talks held successful Mumbai. The 2 Prime Ministers supported “an contiguous and lasting ceasefire, the merchandise of the hostages and the transportation of humanitarian aid, and their shared committedness to a lasting and conscionable bid arsenic a measurement towards a Two-State solution, with a harmless and unafraid Israel, alongside a viable Palestinian state.”

Mr. Starmer and Mr. Modi highlighted practice betwixt the 2 sides wrong the discourse of the Commonwealth and agreed to enactment intimately connected “climate change, sustainable development, and younker engagement” for the 2.5 cardinal colonisation of the Commonwealth subordinate countries. The connection reiterated shared committedness to “global peace, prosperity and rules-based planetary order”. They besides expressed enactment to proceed the dialog connected Migration and Mobility Partnership.

In his remarks pursuing the delegation-level talks, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri reiterated India’s committedness to talks connected streamlining migration and said, “We don’t enactment amerciable immigration.” Mr. Starmer expressed U.K.’s condemnation of the April 22 Pahalgam onslaught and Mr. Modi condemned the onslaught extracurricular a synagogue that near 2 persons dormant successful Manchester during Yom Kippur past week.

The associated connection highlighted economic progress, defence co-production, and imaginable for exertion partnerships betwixt some countries and reiterated the advantages of the precocious signed India-U.K. Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and initiatives launched, supporting innovators and entrepreneurs.

Mr. Modi called CETA “historic”, saying the statement volition trim import costs, make caller employment opportunities for youth, boost trade, and payment some industries and consumers. “Mr. Starmer’s sojourn symbolises the caller vigor and wide imaginativeness successful the India-U.K. partnership,” helium said. Mr. Starmer termed CETA a “breakthrough” moment.

This was Mr. Starmer’s archetypal sojourn to India aft being appointed arsenic the U.K. Prime Minister. Along with the delegation of implicit 100 entrepreneurs, taste representatives, and assemblage Vice-Chancellors, helium was connected a two-day sojourn to India to sermon planetary and determination issues arsenic good arsenic the CETA.

The countries besides signed the Terms of Reference to reposition the Joint Economic and Trade Committee (JETCO). Union Minister Piyush Goyal said connected X, “This organization reset is simply a game-changer, strengthening our model for strategical engagement, driving the implementation of the India-U.K. CETA, and boosting our associated ambition to importantly heighten our bilateral trade.”

India launched respective initiatives successful collaboration with the U.K., 1 being the India-U.K. Technology Security Initiative. “Under this initiative, we person created a level for associated probe and innovation successful captious technologies and usage it arsenic a span betwixt the young generations of some countries,” Mr. Modi said.

The different initiatives see the Connectivity and Innovation Centre, the Joint AI Research Centre, the Industry Guild and the Supply Chain Observatory to collaborate connected captious minerals, with a outer field astatine ISM Dhanbad, the enactment of the India-U.K. Offshore Wind Taskforce, and the Climate Technology Startup Fund, supporting innovators and entrepreneurs from some countries moving successful climate, technology, and AI.