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The high commissioner said the UK’s civil service head of the Ministry of Defence and a Homeland Security Trade Mission led by Director of the UK Defence and Security Organisation will visit India this month.
Kumar said India’s pledges of contributions for operational activities of development for the year 2020 is to the tune of USD 13.5 million, in line with the country’s long-standing tradition of supporting development activities across the UN system.
“Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi invited the President of Brazil to be the chief guest at the Republic Day 2020. The Brazilian President has accepted the invitation with pleasure,” said a statement issued after a Modi-Bolsonaro meeting in Brasilia, on the side lines of the BRICS Summit.
Xi and Modi met in southern India last month, following their first informal summit in China last year as the two sought to put their often deeply strained relationship back on track.
The first round of the meeting on the 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue was held in New Delhi in September 2018 and had focussed on the need for upholding peaceful resolution of territorial maritime disputes, promoting market-based economics, supporting good governance, fundamental rights, and liberties, and preventing external economic coercion.
During the meeting both leaders reviewed the progress made in the bilateral relationship since PM’s visit to Vladivostok. PM specifically mentioned the successful visits of our Minister of Defence and Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas to Russia. His Vladivostok visit progress has been achieved in Indian investments in diamond, timber and infrastructure sectors besides petroleum in Far-East Russia.
Modi said that strengthening the BRICS business links could be achieved with the full cooperation of the NDB and the BRICS Business Council.
Dealing with the issue of black money in foreign jurisdictions has been one of the key priority area for the government. The issue of black money was also one of the key reasons behind the move to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes in November 2016.
The proposed rules are part of a bid to prevent corporations artificially showing profits in low-tax countries instead of the country where their economic activity takes place. As talks enter the final stage, a wide gulf has opened up over taxation rights on new age companies like Netflix, Google and Facebook between their home countries and developing countries like India as well as European Union nations where these companies have a large customer base.
The annual May 9 Victory Day parade in Moscow, where Russia shows off its military might, commemorates the May 1945 allied victory over Nazi Germany.
