The prime minister presented investment opportunities, especially in the sectors of infrastructure and logistics centres, energy, agriculture and pharmaceuticals.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met on Thursday morning with a delegation of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) as part of his official visit to India. During the meeting, perspectives and ways to strengthen bilateral economic cooperation were discussed. Particular emphasis was placed on planning to establish a Greek-Indian Chamber of Commerce. For this purpose, after all, in the next period of time, a business delegation of the Confederation of Indian Industry will visit Athens.
The prime minister presented the prospects of the Greek economy, which is on a steady growth trajectory and underlined great investment opportunities, especially in infrastructure and logistics centres, energy, agriculture and pharmaceutical products.
Mitsotakis made special reference to the importance of IMEC, the India-Middle East-Europe corridor and the role that Greece can play as a hub of this important trade corridor and as an honest interlocutor of the region's countries.
The Greek Prime Minister spoke to his interlocutors about the initiatives undertaken by Greece for the diversification of energy sources and connectivity, the Vertical Corridor, and renewable energy sources.
The Greek Ambassador to New Delhi, Aliki Koutsomitopoulou, the Head of the Economic Office of Prime Minister Alexis Patelis and the Special Advisor for International Policy and Public Diplomacy to Prime Minister Aristotelia Pelonis participated in the meeting.
From the Indian side, R. Dinesh (President of CII, Chairman, TVS Supply Chain Solutions Limited), Chandrajit Banerjee (General Manager of CII), Baba Kalyani (Chairman and Managing Director, Bharat Forge Limited), Srinivas Bommidala (Chairman, International Airports) participated GMR Group), Sunjay Kapur (Chairman CII Europe, Chairman, Sona Comstar), Vikram Shroff (Vice-Chairman and Co-CEO, UPL Ltd.), Uday Khemka (Vice Chairman, SUN Group).
The Prime Minister was then given a tour of the New Delhi airport, which is managed by the GMR, the company building the new airport at Kastelli, Crete.
