India and Poland will discuss ways to strengthen bilateral relationship especially in the fields of defence and trade and investment when Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will hold talks with Indian leadership here Tuesday.
Tusk, who arrived in the southern Indian city of Bangalore Monday on a three-day state visit to India, will hold delegation level talks with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh and will call on President Pratibha Patil. Tusk is a first non-communist Polish Prime Minister to visit India on an official trip.
After his meeting with Singh, the two sides are expected to sign some agreements including one in the field of cultural exchanges.
"While a number of agreements are on table, one which will be signed is on cultural exchanges," Banashri Bose Harrison, Joint Secretary (Central Europe) in Indian Ministry of External Affairs told reporters here.
The Polish leader, accompanied by his wife and senior government officials, is scheduled to address industry leaders here at a luncheon meeting jointly organised by the industry chambers that is aimed at encouraging Indian investment in Poland.
Besides, the economic relations, Indo-Polish military cooperation has also witnessed manifold increase after the visit of then Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee in December 2004 when the two countries set up a joint working group on defence cooperation.
Negotiations are on between the companies from India and Poland for joint ventures in defence field. However, Harrison refused to divulge the names of the companies.