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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is currently on a tour of Australia. His visit began on Tuesday morning after a meeting with Australian green energy and technology firm Fortescue Future Industries. The Prime Minister also met Paul Schroeder, CEO of Australian Super in Sydney. PM Modi reached Australia from Papua New Guinea on Monday as the last stop of his three-nation tour. Over the next two days, the Prime Minister will meet Australian business leaders and leaders and address the Indian community. Meanwhile, he will also hold bilateral meeting with his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese.
PM Modi, who reached Australia, was welcomed by people of the Indian community with slogans like ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ and ‘Vande Mataram’. The Prime Minister will address the Indian community on Tuesday at a grand event at the Kudos Park Arena in Sydney’s Olympic Park. More than 25,000 people are expected to participate in the event. The event is being organized by the Indian-Australian Diaspora Foundation. This is PM Modi’s second visit to Australia after 2014.
Australia’s PM said – an honor!
Australian Prime Minister Albanese said before PM Modi’s visit that it is an honor for me to host Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is coming on an official tour of Australia. He said he looked forward to visiting New Delhi in September for the G20 leaders’ summit, the world’s premier forum for economic cooperation. Regarding relations between India and Australia, PM Modi said that over time mutual trust between the two countries has turned into cooperation, especially on issues of defense and security.
Emphasis on strengthening ties with Australia
In an interview to ‘The Australian’ newspaper, the Prime Minister said that he wanted to take India-Australia relations to the ‘next level’. Regarding the challenges facing the ‘open and free Indo-Pacific’, he said, ‘India believes that these challenges can be resolved only through joint efforts.’ PM Modi’s three-nation foreign tour began in Japan where he attended the G-7 summit. From here he reached Papua New Guinea and reached Sydney on Monday.