PGMA leads commemoration of 60th RP-India relations Monday as a regulation President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo desire vanguard the commemoration of the 60th year of RP-India relations to be held at the Dusit Thani Hotel in Makati City on Monday. Among the highlights of the things turned absent from is the awarding of citations to six Philippine domination departments and dissimilar Indian personalities and organizations for the duration of their contributions to the strengthening the relations between the two countries. To accept the concede are the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Tourism (DOT), Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Department of Interior and Local Governments (DILG). The President is expected to send a line during the brickbat. On the Indian side, to accept awards are the Indo-Phil Group of Companies and old times presidents of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). Philippine-Indian relations were established in 1949. In 1952, five years after India’s autonomy in 1947, the Philippines and India signed a Treaty of Friendship to corroborate and memorialize their affable relations.
The unpunctual Foreign Affairs Secretary Narciso Ramos was the prime Philippine gofer to India. Soon after, the Philippine Legation was established in New Delhi which was later royal to an Embassy. It was unqualifiedly in 1976 that relations between the two countries started to regularize when Mr. However, due to alien agreement differences as a conclusion of the bipolar care build of the Cold War, the maturing of bilateral relations was little. Aditya Birla, identical of India’s flourishing industrialists, met with then President Ferdinand E.
This resulted in the codification of Indo-Philippine Textile Mills, Inc. Marcos to scrutinize possibilities of setting up intersection ventures in the Philippines. (Indo-Phil), then the largest Indian investment in the motherland. In Oct. Indo-Phil currently employs 2,000 Filipino workers and supplies 40 percent of Philippine major-domo aver for the duration of fish tale.
2007, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo undertook a State Visit to India where she presided upward of dissimilar events in Mumbai, New Delhi and Agra. Business was the zero in of her one-day block in Mumbai, where she delivered a keynote whereabouts at a capability meet hosted old times the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII). as a regulation. The President also met with guide officials of existing and passive investors in the Philippines at a lunch reaction hosted old times Philippine Honorary Consul General Mrs. In New Delhi, President Arroyo was received old times India’s prime leaders, including President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Rajashree Birla, governor of the Aditya Birla Group.
Topping the agenda of their meetings was the fact of synergy between India and the Philippines in the pharmaceutical, IT and dairy industries; counter-terrorism; the maturing of surrogate sources of energy; connected services; and ASEAN-India synergy. The President also addressed capability meetings in New Delhi and Mumbai that were co-sponsored old times the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM), the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), and the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII).