Prime minister Narendra Modi will visit a number of countries in Central Asia from July 6-13. He will also attend the VII BRICS and SCO Summits in Ufa, Russia, during this period.
Uzbekistan
Modi will begin his journey in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on July 6. He will meet with President Islam Karimov to sign agreements related to economic and trade cooperation.
Bilateral trade:
Total trade: $207.8 million (December 2014)
Indian exports: $176.6 million (pharmaceutical products, wood products, paper, machinery, garments and fabric, tea, plastic items, etc.)
Indian imports: $31.2 million (beans, chemicals, non-ferrous metals, machinery, raw cotton and silk, silver, etc.)
Kazakhstan
Modi will visit Kazakhstan from July 7-8 where he will meet with President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Prime Minister Karim Massimov. The topics of discussion will revolve around increased bilateral cooperation in the fields of energy, space, and agriculture. Modi will also visit the Nazarbayev University and inaugurate the India-Kazakhstan Centre for Excellence in Information and Communication Technology at the LN Gumilev Eurasian National University.
Bilateral trade
Total trade: $941.94 million (December 2014)
Indian exports: $200.8 million (pharmaceutical and medical products, tea, telephone apparatus, raw tobacco, construction material, etc)
Indian imports: $749.14 million (petroleum oil and oil from bituminous minerals, radioactive chemical elements and isotopes, asbestos, titanium)
Modi will be in Ufa, Russia to attend the BRICS Summit on July 8-10.
Turkmenistan
Modi will visit Turkmenistan and meet with president Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on July 11. He is expected to sign several agreements around tourism, fertilizers, space, science and technology, and defence. He will also inaugurate a statue of Mahatma Gandhi and a Traditional Medicine and Yoga Centre there.
Bilateral trade
Total trade: $87.73 million (December 2014)
Indian exports: $73.63 million (electronic and electrical items, frozen meat, tyres, machinery, garments, pharmaceutical products, etc)
Indian imports: $14.10 million (raw cotton, raw hides, inorganic chemicals like iodine, etc.)
Kyrgyzstan
Modi will visit Kyrgyzstan on July 12 where he will meet with president Almazbek Atambayev during which he they will sign several agreements. He will also meet prime minister Semir Tariyev and speaker of the parliament Asylbek Jeenbekov. Apart from this, he will be inaugurating tele-medicine links to promote medical tourism to India, and visiting Kyrgyz-India Mountain Biomedical Research Centre.
Bilateral trade
Total trade: $35.13 million (December 2014)
India exports: $34.49 million (pharmaceutical products, garments, tea, leather goods, fine chemicals, etc.)
India imports: $0.64 million (raw hides, metalifer ores, metal scrap, etc.)
Tajikistan
Modi will visit Tajikistan from July 12-13, the last leg of his week long trip. He will meet President Emomali Rahmon to discuss and sign bilateral agreements to strengthen diplomatic, economic and defence ties.
Bilateral trade
Total trade: $55.13 million (December 2014)
India exports: $54.27 million (pharmaceuticals, tea, coffee, garments, chemicals, machinery, etc.)
India imports: $0.86 million (aluminum, dry fruits, vegetables, cotton, organic chemicals, essential oils, etc.)
All trade figures are from the Ministry of External Affairs, India, country briefs
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