{"id":257455,"date":"2023-08-26T22:24:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T16:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=257455"},"modified":"2023-08-26T22:24:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T16:54:16","slug":"india-and-greece-pledge-to-upgrade-ties-to-become-strategic-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-and-greece-pledge-to-upgrade-ties-to-become-strategic-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"India and Greece pledge to upgrade ties to become strategic partners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>India and Greece pledge to upgrade ties to become strategic partners<\/b><b>\u201d\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu on 26th August 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prime Minister of India made an official visit to Greece. This was the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Greece in 40 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the key takeaways from the Indian PMs visit to Greece?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Grand Cross of the Order of Honour:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Indian PM was honored with the Grand Cross of the Order of Honour by the President of Greece, making him the first foreign Head of Government to receive this award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>PM visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a war memorial located in Syntagma Square in Athens, in front of the Old Royal Palace. It is a cenotaph dedicated to the Greek soldiers killed during various wars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Upgrade to Strategic Partnership<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Both countries decided to elevate Greek-Indian bilateral ties to a &#8220;Strategic Partnership&#8221; level, focusing on expanding cooperation in political, security, and economic domains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Doubling Bilateral Trade:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Acknowledging the growth in bilateral trade, the leaders set a goal to double bilateral trade by 2030.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The two-way trade between India and Greece has grown from $507 million in 2016-17 to $1.94 billion in 2022-23.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Institutional Dialogue Framework: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They agreed to establish an institutional dialogue framework at the level of National Security Advisers to enhance collaboration in defense and security matters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Agricultural Cooperation: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An MOU was signed to facilitate sectoral cooperation in agriculture, including the creation of a Hellenic-Indian Joint Sub-committee on Agriculture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Mobility and Migration Partnership Agreement (MMPA)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Both leaders agreed the early finalization of a mobility and migration partnership agreement will be mutually beneficial, facilitating the free movement of workforce between the two countries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia and Greece pledge to upgrade ties to become strategic partners\u201d\u00a0 published in The Hindu on 26th August 2023. What is the News? The Prime Minister of India made an official visit to Greece. This was the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Greece in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-and-greece-pledge-to-upgrade-ties-to-become-strategic-partners\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India and Greece pledge to upgrade ties to become strategic partners<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-257455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":3,"cached_at":1698369702,"cached_date":1698403835},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}