India & UK Are Natural Partners: PM Boris Johnson During 2021 Global Technology Summit

PM Boris Johnson, during his special address to the 2021 Global Technology Summit via video link, said that over the coming decade, India and the UK will continue to deepen their bonds on technology.

New Delhi: Describing India & UK as "natural partners" PM Boris Johnson said on Tuesday that both the countries are working together on "fantastic projects" like 5G and telecom to startups that will transform people's lives and promote the principles of freedom, openness and peace.

With our shared culture of innovation and our entrepreneurial spirit, the UK and India are natural partners. We're working together on many fantastic projects, from the UK-India partnership on 5G and telecom to the UK startups who are working with India giants, the prime minister said, reported PTI.

PM Boris Johnson, during his special address to the 2021 Global Technology Summit via video link, said that over the coming decade, India and the UK will continue to deepen their bonds on technology and other areas as they have set out in the 2030 India-UK roadmap, which was signed in May this year.

The summit was co-hosted by the non-governmental organisation Carnegie India along with the Ministry of External Affairs on the theme of Global Meets Local.

Working side-by-side, we will not only make breakthroughs that will transform people's lives, but we'll help shape a new technology based on the principles of freedom, openness and peace, Johnson said in his special address to the Summit, reported PTI.

We know that a huge advantage awaits us with Artificial Intelligence and quantum computing and with technology poised to help us find answers to some of humanity's biggest challenges. That's why I was so pleased earlier this year when my friend Prime Minister Narendra Modi and I agreed that our two countries should work closer than ever before on technology and the roles that will help us shape the coming age, the British prime minister said.

UK foreign secretary Liz Truss during the virtual summit said that hostile forces use technology to gain the upper hand. That's why freedom-loving democracies need to step up to shape global technologies and champion our interests.

Truss also called India and the UK natural partners.

"Every time I visit India or meet Indian businesses, I am reminded of what natural partners we are. We're open to the world as outward-looking nations, which is why the UK is India's 2nd largest investment destination".