Ahmedabad Times

The India-Nordic Summit would be the spotlight of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s five-nation go to starting this week, together with a stopover within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that can deal with power cooperation and commerce.

Modi pays an official go to to the UAE on Could 15, throughout which he’ll meet President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to trade views on bilateral points, notably power cooperation, and regional and worldwide points, the exterior affairs ministry stated in a press release on Monday.

The 2 leaders can even focus on methods to advance the bilateral complete strategic partnership. The go to will assist to advertise vital commerce and funding hyperlinks between the 2 international locations, the assertion stated. The UAE is India’s third largest commerce associate and seventh largest supply of funding cumulatively over the previous 25 years. The UAE hosts greater than 4.5 million Indians, and the go to can be a chance to debate their welfare, the assertion stated.

On the second leg of the go to, Modi will journey to the Netherlands throughout Could 15-17. He’ll meet King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima and maintain talks with Prime Minister Rob Jetten. This go to will construct on shut cooperation in defence, safety, innovation, inexperienced hydrogen, semiconductors and a strategic partnership on water.

Modi’s go to early within the tenure of Jetten’s new authorities can be a chance to deepen and increase the bilateral partnership. The Netherlands is considered one of India’s largest commerce locations in Europe, with two-way commerce price $27.8 billion in 2024-25. The Netherlands is India’s fourth largest investor with cumulative investments of $55.6 billion.

Modi will then journey to Sweden for the third leg of the go to throughout Could 17-18. He’ll maintain bilateral talks with Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on bilateral relations and to discover new avenues of cooperation, together with enhancing commerce that was price $7.75 billion in 2025. Sweden’s FDI into India throughout 2000-2025 was price $2.825 billion, and there may be shut collaboration between the 2 sides in inexperienced transition, synthetic intelligence, rising applied sciences, startups, resilient provide chains, defence, house and local weather motion.

Modi and Kristersson will tackle the European Roundtable for Trade, a number one pan-European enterprise discussion board, together with European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen.

Modi will journey to Norway throughout Could 18-19 for the third India-Nordic Summit and bilateral engagements. This can be Modi’s first go to to Norway, and likewise the primary go to by an Indian PM to the nation in 43 years. Modi will meet King Harald V and Queen Sonja and maintain talks with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.

Modi and Støre will tackle the India-Norway Enterprise and Analysis Summit. The go to can be a chance to evaluation bilateral relations and discover avenues to additional strengthen them, with the deal with commerce and funding, capitalising on the India-EFTA Commerce and Financial Partnership Settlement.

“The go to can even be a chance to induce momentum in bilateral commerce price round $2.73 billion (2024), and investments by Norway’s Authorities Pension Fund (GPFG) of near $28 billion within the Indian capital market,” the assertion stated.

“India is the world’s largest democracy and the world’s most populous nation. India performs a central function in local weather, expertise, commerce and worldwide safety. This go to underlines the significance of cooperation between India, Norway and the Nordic international locations in these occasions of worldwide instability. We stand collectively in selling worldwide cooperation and a rules-based world order,” Støre stated in a press release.

The India-Nordic Summit can be held in Oslo on Could 19, and Modi can be joined by Støre, Denmark Prime Mette Frederiksen, Finland Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, Iceland Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir, and Sweden Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. This summit will construct on the 2 earlier summits in Stockholm in April 2018 and Copenhagen in Could 2022, and impart a “extra strategic dimension to India’s relationship with the Nordic international locations”, particularly in expertise, innovation, inexperienced transition, blue financial system, defence, house and the Arctic.

The go to can even present an impetus to India’s bilateral commerce with the Nordic international locations (price $19 billion in 2024) and funding ties, and assist construct resilient provide chains following the India-EU and India-EFTA commerce offers.

Within the closing leg of his go to, Modi will go to Italy throughout Could 19-20, when he’ll maintain talks along with his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni. He can even meet President Sergio Mattarella. The go to takes place towards the backdrop of the 2 sides proactively implementing the joint strategic motion plan for 2025-2029, a roadmap for cooperation in sectors similar to bilateral commerce, which reached $16.77 in 2025, and boosting funding, which was cumulatively price $3.66 billion between April 2000 and September 2025.

Modi’s go to will “additional deepen India’s partnership with Europe throughout sectors, notably commerce and funding ties, in gentle of the not too long ago concluded India-EU FTA”, the assertion stated.