UK can look forward to India as major trade partner: MoS PMO

The UK can look forward to India as major partner to further bilateral trade, Union minister Jitendra Singh said here today.
Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Singh discussed wide range of issues of mutual interest between the United Kingdom and India with British Trade Minister Lord Francis Maude, who is currently on a visit to the country.
Singh told the visiting minister that the United Kingdom, more than any other European and western country, shared an exclusive relationship with India which was based on certain common legacies and common history.
While many of the good practices of British Raj are still followed in India, he said, several British scholars, young administrators and medicos are now regularly visiting India to learn from our experience.

He referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "positive" approach to reach out to other nations of the world which served as an inspiration and stimulus for "all of us in the government" to keep developing and innovating new areas of mutual cooperation.
"Of late, India has emerged as a potential market for profitable trade and investment by other countries as the UK too can look forward to India as a major trade partner with stakes in commerce and finance," the Minister said.
Lord Francis Maude, who has a long experience in the UK politics, is also a former Chairman of the Conservative Party.

He said his meeting with Singh today will certainly open new vistas for furthering relations between the two countries.