Cameron's India visit to focus on trade ties

UK-INDIA

London, Jul 23 (PTI) Prime Minister David Cameron will
take a planeload of Cabinet ministers and business leaders to
India during his visit to the country which is expected to
begin next Wednesday, seeking to boost trade links with the
former 'jewel in the crown' of the erstwhile British empire.
In the first example of the new focus on trade in foreign
policy, the British delegation will make "an unprecedented
attempt to woo this rising world power" during the visit,
according to Tory MP Jo Johnson, brother of London Mayor Boris
Johnson.
Cameron has been highly critical of the last Government's
approach to the so-called BRIC emerging economies - Brazil,
Russia, India and China.
Former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown
visited India but failed to create what Cameron is dubbing a
"special relations", the Guardian reported.
"By dispatching himself and so many of his most senior
colleagues to India, and so early on, Cameron is making a
clear signal of his intent to revitalise a critical, bilateral
relationship and repair what he regards as a decade of
neglect," Johnson wrote in this week's Spectator. PTI HSR
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