Top-level visits from Canada to India begin this month

Toronto: After 2010, which saw almost a dozen Canadian ministers visit India, top-level visits in the new year begin with Clement Gignac, minister of economic development for French-speaking Quebec province, leading a big team to India later this month.
Gignac will head a 60-member business delegation to New Delhi and Mumbai from Jan 30.
The visit is a follow-up to Quebec Premier Jean Charest's successful visit to India last February to promote his province in the world's second fastest growing economy.
Quebec, which has its own trade office in Mumbai, is aggressively forging trade ties with India, particularly Karnataka and Maharashtra with which it has signed an MoU on higher education.
Indian ministers - Anand Sharma (commerce and industry), Subodh Kant Sahay (food processing industries), Praful Patel (civil aviation) and B.K. Handique (mines and development of north east region) - had signed various memoranda with Quebec during their visits to Canada last year.
'The Quebec minister will attend the Delhi summit of the World Sustainable Development Forum (WSDF) from Feb 3-5 and meet various ministers, including Anand Sharma, Praful Patel, Subodh Kant Sahay, Handique and Kapil Sibal,' Indian diplomatic sources told IANS.
06/01/11 IANS/Sify

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Categories: Foreign Jan 2011