India, Finland emphasise having institutionalised joint working group

New Delhi: India and Finland have agreed to carry mutual cooperation between the two countries to a new level in a number of areas of bilateral as well as global interests.

Finland Minister of Education and Culture, Petri Honkonen called on Union Science and Technology Minister Dr Jitendra Singh in New Delhi yesterday to seek enhanced bilateral cooperation between the two countries in the field of Science, Technology and Innovation. The two nations decided to enhance cooperation in areas such as Digital Partnership in Future  Information and Communication Technology, Future Mobile Technologies and Digital Education. India



and Finland also emphasised on having institutionalised joint working groups on areas of mutual interest.

While Dr Jitendra Singh reiterated India's focus on collaboration even in StartUps, the Finland Minister was full of praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the management of the Covid pandemic and also the efforts of the Government of India in ensuring the development of vaccines and vaccination for all the countrymen.

Mr Honkonen assured that Finland is keen to cooperate with India in 5G, Affordable Healthcare, Environment and Clean Technologies.