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Boris Johnson is only the second British leader since India’s independence to attend the Republic Day parade in New Delhi as guest of honour after John Major in 1993.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has accepted India’s “very generous” invite to be the Republic Day chief guest at next month’s celebrations in Delhi, UK’s Foreign Secretary said today, calling it “a great honour”. This will be Boris Johnson’s “first major bilateral visit” since he took charge last year, his office highlighted.

“I am totally enchanted to visit India one year from now toward the beginning of an energizing year for Global Britain and anticipate conveying the quantum jump in our two-sided relationship that Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi and I have vowed to accomplish,” the British PM said in a proclamation.

He is just the second British pioneer since India’s autonomy to go to the Republic Day march in Delhi as a visitor of honor after John Major in 1993.

Unfamiliar Minister S Jaishankar said his quality at the yearly festivals “would be in a route representative of another period, and another period of India-UK ties”.

Boris Johnson has likewise welcomed PM Modi to join the G7 culmination one year from now in Britain, said UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab; India would be one of the three visitor nations. Mr. Raab arrived at Delhi today for a four-day India visit and was invited by the Foreign Minister.

“I’m satisfied that PM Boris Johnson has welcomed PM Modi to join the UK-facilitated G7 culmination one year from now. The British PM has additionally acknowledged the liberal greeting to go to India’s Republic Day festivities in January, which is an amazing privilege,” he said this evening.

“The UK Foreign Secretary comes at a significant time since we are taking a gander at a post-COVID world and furthermore taking a gander at a post-Brexit world from the point of view of the UK. This is the ideal time for us to have conversations,” S Jaishankar said on Dominic Raab’s visit.

The British PM “will utilize his visit to India to help collaboration in territories that issue to the UK and that will be needed for our global commitment all through 2021 – from exchange and speculation, to guard and security, and wellbeing and environmental change,” his office said.

“The UK and India are critical financial specialists and markets for one another’s economies and our developing exchange and speculation relationship is worth around 24 billion pounds per year, supporting the greater part 1,000,000 positions There are 842 Indian organizations in the UK with a consolidated turnover of 41.2 billion pounds, making occupations in every one of the four corners of the United Kingdom,” it added.

Calling India “an inexorably crucial accomplice for the United Kingdom”, Boris Johnson portrayed the nation as a “drug store of the world” in comments that expect importance when the battle against Covid is seething.

“As the ‘drug store of the world’ India supplies more than 50% of the world’s immunizations, with over a billion dosages of the UK’s Oxford/AstraZeneca antibody being fabricated at India’s Serum Institute in Pune,” he said.

The United Kingdom cleared Pfizer’s antibody recently. In India, three immunization creators, including American firm Pfizer, as of late moved toward the medication regulator DCGI for crisis endorsement.