Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Monday participated in a virtual bilateral summit and agreed to extend cooperation to strengthen the bilateral relationship between the two countries.
PM Modi spoke about joining forces to build a more diversified supply-chain across the world, hinting that dependency one ‘one single-source’ could prove to be risky.
“I would like to express my sympathy to all those who suffered from COVID-19 in Denmark. I would also laud your leadership that helped the country in tiding over the pandemic,” PM stated.
Indian PM said, “The events of the past few months have made it clear that for like-minded countries like us, who share a rules-based, transparent, humanitarian and democratic value-system need to work together.”
On the COVID-19 crisis, he called for collaboration in the like-minded country and said India will leverage its pharma advantage for the benefit of the world.
Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen said, “the summit is a milestone for our bilateral relations, on an important and forward-looking agreement on the green strategic partnership”.
India and Denmark have also agreed on 2nd India Nordic countries summit. The first such summit took place in 2018 in Stockholm. This is the 4th virtual meet of Indian PM due to the pandemic. He has already met the leaders of Australia, EU and Sri Lanka.
In Denmark, around 25 Indian companies are operating in IT, renewable energy and engineering sectors.
Nearly 5,000 Indian professionals are working in major Danish companies, while 20 Indian IT companies are operating in Denmark for decades, according to official data procured by news agency PTI.
Denmark has been an important development partner, contributing to India’s ‘White Revolution’ and growth of wind energy, the news agency said.
Bilateral trade between the countries has also grown by 30.49 per cent between 2016 and 2019 as the trade volume rose from USD 2.82 billion to USD 3.68 billion, PTI said.
