NEW DELHI: German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier today held wide-ranging talks with Indian leadership including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, who stressed that the world community must be unanimous in curbing and rooting out terror in all forms.
Steinmeier, who is on a five-day visit to India, and Modi discussed ways to strengthen the strategic partnership during their meeting at the renovated Sunder Nursery, a 90-acre heritage park in central Delhi.
“Had the honour of taking the President of Germany, Mr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier to Delhi’s Sunder Nursery. We had wonderful discussions on a wide range of issues,” Modi tweeted.
Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj also called on the German president, who has visited India several times in the past in his capacity as the foreign minister and vice chancellor of Germany.
“Engaging discussion on broadening and deepening our strategic partnership. The two sides attach priority to the relationship, bilaterally and also in the global context,” Raveesh Kumar, Spokesperson of Ministry of the External Affairs, tweeted after Swaraj met the President. (AGENCIES)
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