Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit Germany from 10-12 April to attend the second round of the India-Germany Intergovernmental Consultations.
During this three-day visit, he will be accompanied by a five-member ministerial delegation, and will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel, to examine New Delhi-Berlin bilateral relations. Both sides are also expected to discuss India’s Free Trade Agreement with the European Union.
Germany is the only country with which India has such a high-level format of discussion as the Intergovernmental Consultations. The first round of Consultations was held when Merkel visited India in May 2011.
Germany is India’s largest trading partner in Europe and our fifth largest trading partner in the world. Bilateral trade between the two nations stood at 18.3 billion Euros in 2011.
There have been several high-level bilateral exchanges between the two nations in the past, the most recent one being Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid’s visit to Berlin in January.