Monday, March 17, 2008

Here’s looking at better Indo-UK ties

The man behind Airtel – Sunil Bharti Mittal, who is also president of CII, headed a 12-member delegation to the United Kingdom. The group went to strengthen Indo-UK trade tries, explore investment opportunities and also discussed global warming and climate change. Among the list of people the group interacted with were industry honchos like Rolls Royce CEO Sir John Rose, Vodafone Chairman Arun Sarin and British Airways Chairman Martin Broughton. “UK and India are critical for each other. One of the ways that CII reflects this is by taking the annual CII CEOs Mission to the UK, led traditionally by the CII President,” CII commented in their statement. Currently, Indo-UK trade is pegged at around £8 billion, and, over the last 12 months, India has emerged the second largest investor in the UK.

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