Meloni in India, Prime Minister Modi: “Joint military actions” – Corriere.it

Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, welcomes her with the guard of honor and the cavalry of the presidential guard. At the end of an hour face to face she spends a few but symbolic words, carefully measured. Melons she is a “dear friend” for whom it must be emphasized that she is “the first woman and at the same time the youngest president of the council”.

Modi welcomes it, then moves on to the contents of the face-to-face meeting that the two leaders have just had and here the Indian prime minister underlines three things: cooperation in the defense sector, joint exercises between the two armies and co-production of weapons and of defense systems. That’s no small thing for Modi relations between Italy and India must have an upward impulse of an economic, commercial and industrial nature and all this takes place on the day in which the 75th anniversary of relations between the two states is celebrated.

Meloni takes the floor immediately afterwards, they say very satisfied with the meeting and underlines one fact over others: the Italian and Indian authorities have decided to elevate their relationship to the rank of strategic partnership, essentially the one that Rome has recently signed with Japan.

Then there is a detail, if you like, of internal politics, of Indian and Italian internal politics; Meloni underlines the common millennial history of the two cultures, the points of contact of a trade balance that can only grow, then he explicitly praises Modi, «thanks also to our cooperation I hope to reach his peaks of consensus, he proves he has great leadership skills.