Panama Foreign Minister looking forward for PM Modi's visit to Panama

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00:00I'm just honoured by the very warm welcome we received from Minister Martinez Acha.

00:05He really has been extremely kind as he took the trouble also to get a couple of members of Parliament to join his delegation.

00:13And on top of that, we had his vice minister. So it was a very, very important meeting.

00:18We covered a lot of ground. The minister received our message on terrorism in a very receptive and open-heart way,

00:25as you saw from his own comments right now. In addition, he raised a number of opportunities for close India-Panama collaboration in the future,

00:34particularly technology, education. He mentioned the IIT, schools of business and so on, pharmaceuticals,

00:40a lot of areas of future cooperation, which shows the commitment of the minister and his government to closer relations between our countries.

00:49So from both grounds, both in terms of our message on terrorism and on the larger picture of our cooperation with Panama,

00:57it's been a very successful meeting. And I thank the minister for his warm embrace, his warm welcome for all of us.

01:03We're looking forward to visit India soon. And we will also try to make an agenda for our president to visit India.

01:12India. And we have a promise from my good friend, Mr. Dorr, that probably Prime Minister Modi will come to Panama soon.

01:19We'll try and persuade him, sir. Absolutely.

01:21Thank you very much.

01:22It'll be wonderful. Thank you so much.

01:23Thank you for your time.