From June 16-24, Indian President Ram Nath Kovind will be on a 8-day visit to Greece, Suriname and Cuba. He is accompanied by the Indian Minister of State for Steel, Vishnu Deo Sai and Lok Sabha members Dinesh Kashyap and Nityanand Rai along with other senior officials.
From June 16-19, he will be in Athens where he will meet with Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulus, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Leader of the Opposition Kyriakos Mitsotakis. He will be attending the India-Greece CEO’s Breakfast Meeting and address the audience. He will also deliver a speech at the Hellenic Foundation for Europe and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP).
On June 19, he will leave for Suriname. It will be the first ever visit by an Indian head of state to the South American nation. He will meet with Surinamese President Desire Delano Bouterse to hold bilateral talks. He is expected to sign plenty MoUs in the areas of Health & Medicine, and Information Technology.
He will be in Cuba from June 21-22, 2018 where he will hold a wide range of discussions with the Cuban President Mr. Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez. It will be the first ever visit of the President of India to Cuba since Cuban Revolution in 1959.
Suriname and Cuba are the founding members of International Solar Alliance and India would be offering developmental assistance to both for solar power related projects.