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DU30 all set for first – ever visit to india

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President Rodrigo Duterte will is set to leave on January 24 for his first ever visit to India and first this year.

Duterte reportedly earlier begged off from going to India but the Department of Foreign Affairs insisted that the President attend the New Delhi from January 24 to 26 for the ASEAN-India Special Commemorative Summit and India’s Republic Day celebration.

The priority areas for cooperation between ASEAN and India are trad and investment, connectivity, agriculture, tourism, culture, science and technology, and climate change.

The DFA said Duterte will deliver messages during the plenary and retreat sessions on January 25.

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Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque has earlier said Duterte’s India trip was planned after his bilateral meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi in November last year.

“The President will attend the India-Asean summit from the 24th to the 26th of this month. We place great importance on our relationship with

India, which is considered an emerging economy,” Roque said.

He said the President’s participation is an outcome of his bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of India at the sidelines of the 31st Asean summit.

The Indian-Asean Summit is the first summit event under the Singapore’s chairmanship of Asean, which has been supportive of the Philippines’ Asean chairmanship last year,” he added.

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