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| British Prime Minister David Cameron (L) shakes hands with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh before their meeting in New Delhi July 29, 2010. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) |
by Wu Qiang
NEW DELHI, July 30 (Xinhua)-- British Prime Minister David Cameron Thursday wound up his two-day visit to India after holding talks with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh.
He also attended Thursday an important British-Indian business forum with the top entrepreneurs of both countries here and attended the signing ceremony of a 1.1 billion-U.S. dollar project to jointly make 57 "Hawk" trainers for the Indian military in the southern city of Bangalore Wednesday.
This visit was Cameron's first to a major developing country since assuming office and the first visit by a British PM to India since 2005. He was accompanied by seven cabinet ministers and 50 British entrepreneurs as well as many people from the circles of education, culture and arts.
Regarded as the largest ever delegation to India since India's Independence in 1947, the visit also showed the great importance paid by London to India.
On the eve of his visit, Cameron published an article on British-Indian relations in the Indian daily The Hindu, in which he called for "a stronger, wider and deeper relationship" between the two countries, while emphasizing huge potentials in cooperative fields such as economy, trade and security.
As per the agreement struck between New Delhi and London during Cameron's visit, one can see that economic and trade cooperation remain the focus bilateral relations. But the new characteristics of British-Indian relations can also be summarized as following:
