{"id":304871,"date":"2018-10-31T02:31:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T02:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304871"},"modified":"2018-10-31T02:31:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T02:31:28","slug":"vice-president-m-venkaiah-naidu-to-visit-botswana-zimbabwe-and-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/vice-president-m-venkaiah-naidu-to-visit-botswana-zimbabwe-and-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu to visit Botswana, Zimbabwe and Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vice\u00a0President\u00a0M. Venkaiah\u00a0Naidu\u00a0will on Wednesday depart for a visit to the African nations of Botswana,\u00a0Zimbabwe\u00a0and\u00a0Malawi.<\/span><\/p>\n

He will be accompanied by a high-level delegation including Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment, Krishan Pal Gurjar, two Members of Parliament and Senior Officers of the Government of India.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vice President\u2019s official engagement in Botswana, Zimbabwe and Malawi will include a call-on the Presidents of the three countries, bilateral meetings with his counterparts, delegation level talks, meetings with Speaker of Parliament and interactions with business groups and Indian communities.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Botswana, Vice\u00a0President\u2019s visit will last from October 31 to November 2, he will officially inaugurate the “Global Expo\u00a0Botswana\u00a02018” along with his counterpart, where 25 Indian companies and business houses covering a range of sectors will also be participating.<\/span><\/p>\n

Naidu\u00a0will then visit\u00a0Zimbabwe\u00a0from November 2 to November 4, where he will meet with the\u00a0Foreign Minister\u00a0and lay the foundation stone of the Chancery project. He will witness the signing of several Memorandums of Understandings (MoU) and will announce LoC projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Malawi, the\u00a0Vice President\u00a0will stay from November 4 to 5. Here Naidu\u00a0is expected to inaugurate the Business Incubation Center, India-Africa\u00a0Institute of Agriculture and Rural Development and unveil a Mahatma\u00a0Gandhi\u00a0bust. Several MoUs and agreements will be signed and announcements including LoC projects are also expected to be made.<\/span><\/p>\n

India shares close, warm and friendly relations with all African countries which are cemented by robust development partnership and a large presence of the Indian Diaspora. The engagement has intensified and there have been 26 outgoing visits to Africa at the level of President, Prime Minister and Vice President in the last four years. Africa has been accorded the top priority in India\u2019s Foreign Policy. The visit of Vice President to Botswana, Zimbabwe and Malawi will further strengthen relations with these African countries.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vice\u00a0President\u00a0M. Venkaiah\u00a0Naidu\u00a0will on Wednesday depart for a visit to the African nations of Botswana,\u00a0Zimbabwe\u00a0and\u00a0Malawi. He will be accompanied by a high-level delegation including Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment, Krishan Pal Gurjar, two Members of Parliament and Senior Officers of the Government of India. Vice President\u2019s official engagement in Botswana, Zimbabwe and Malawi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[9106,9108,4777,5590,9107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304873,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304871\/revisions\/304873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}