India in Mexico Newsletter May-June 2019 by Embassy of India in Mexico

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A Monthly Newsletter | Vol. III, No. 5 | May - June 2019

2018

Bilateral Trade surges to US$ 10.15 bn

India and Mexico A Deepening Partnership

Ambassador of the Year

2016 2019

2019

India - Guest of Honour Country at 46th Cervantino Festival

2018

2016

PM Shri Narendra Modi visits Mexico

India - Guest of Honour Country at 33rd International Book Fair Guadalajara

Adios, Mexico!

In this Issue From the Ambassador’s desk Adios, Mexico!

A DYNAMIC AND PRIVILEGED PARTNERSHIP

Primer Ministro de la India visita México

Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu visited India

Prime Minister Modi and President Enrique Peña Nieto met

Congratulatory messages to President AMLO

Mexico congratulates Prime Minister Narendra Modi

7th Joint Commission Meeting

Ambassador’s meetings with Foreign Ministers

NDC Defence Delegation

Honorary Consulate in Monterrey

PARLIAMENTARY EXCHANGES

Visits

Mango Tree

Book Discussion

SURGING TRADE AND INVESTMENT

India-Mexico Bilateral trade crosses USD 10 billion mark in 2018

Inside the trade basket

From the Mexican side...

Trade delegations

Investments

India-Mexico Chamber Launch

Fortaleciendo la relación entre la India y América Latina y el Caribe

Intervención del Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de la India. Cónclave India-LAC

4th High Level Group (HLG) on Trade, Investment and Economic Cooperation

Doing Business in Mexico: A Guide for Indian Investors

Engaging States

TWO CULTURES MEET

The Story of India-Mexico Cultural Connect

ICCR Day

Photo Exhibition of Raghu Rai

Bollywood in Mexico

Food Festivals

Top Chef Mexico

Royal India

India Week in Guadalajara

Promoting Tourism Workshop

Embassy of India

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CELEBRATING YOGA

Yoga in Mexico

5th International Day of Yoga in Mexico City

CONMEMORATING MAHATMA GANDHI

Unveiling of busts of Mahatma Gandhi

Exhibition of Mahatma Gandhi in Museo de Memoria y Tolerancia

Chart of activities undertaken under Gandhi@150 program in Mexico and Belize

Greening Mexico

EDUCATION AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY

ITEC. “Abuelas solares” llevan luz a viviendas de Oaxaca

Youth connection: Visits to universities

For a charitable cause-ACD

COMMUNITY CONNECT

New Consular Wing

Indian Association of Mexico

PUBLICATIONS

IN MEDIA

Ambassador of the Year

India Week TV Capital 21

W Radio

Suplemento India El Financiero

Interviews

SEVEN DECADES OF BILATERIAL RELATIONS: MILESTONES

AMBASSADORS OF INDIA SINCE 1950

Amb. Muktesh Pardeshi is appointed India’s High Commissioner to New Zealand

Shri Manpreet Vohra to be India’s next Ambassador to Mexico

NEWS ROUNDUP

Mrs. Pratibha Patil, former President of India, presented with the Aztec Eagle

Porrua Lunch

India Day at Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara

India Week in UNAM

Feria de las Culturas Amigas 2019

Press Conference on FIL

India anuncia sus actividades en la FIL de Guadalajara “ El Universal”

Presentan esquema general de la India para la FIL Guadalajara 2019 “Milenio”

Más de 30 autores representarán a India en la FIL Guadalajara “Aristegui Noticias “

Escribe la India su historia en la FIL “Protocolo”

INDIA-BELIZE

Credentials

Visa MoU

Vocational and Technical training

Mahatma Gandhi Internet Resource Centre

India-Belize Centre of Engineering

Visit of Honorable Minister of State (Tribal Affairs) Shri Sudarshan Bhagat to Belize

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Adios Mexico! I feel sad and sentimental in sharing the news that I would be leaving Mexico for New Zealand in June on completion of my diplomatic assignment. I arrived in April 2016 to take up my post as the 24th Ambassador of India to Mexico. Diplomatic relations between India, which had achieved independence in 1947, and Mexico were established on 1 August 1950. India´s first Ambassador to Mexico (with residence in Washington) Smt. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit presented her credentials to President Miguel Aleman on 8 February 1951. Mexico also set up its diplomatic mission in New Delhi in 1951. Subsequently, India opened a resident Mission at the level of CdÁ a.i. in 1954, which was upgraded to the level of resident Ambassador in 1961, the year Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru paid a 4-day State Visit to Mexico. During the last 70 years, friendship and cooperation between the two nations have grown steadily in diverse sectors. India and Mexico became Privileged Partners in 2007 and since then the Partnership has advanced well. Mexico has a special place in my life, having known it for now 26 years. I came here in 1993 for a year and a half on my first posting abroad and fell in love with this beautiful country. The feeling of leaving Mexico in three years is hard and emotional. What is important though is that I am leaving on a happy note. The three years which I have spent in Mexico since 2016 have been indeed happy, eventful and successful. Last three years have been full of activities and achievements in India-Mexico relations. There has been an all-roundboth quantitative and qualitative, expansion in our ties. The visit of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in June 2016, within 7 weeks of my arrival, was successful and historic, as a bilateral visit took place after 30 long years. We have seen a rise in frequency and level of high level interactions. It was a matter of great pride to conceptualize and roll out a vision for India’s cultural presence at Mexico’s two most prestigious cultural and literary eventsCervantino International Festival and International Book Fair. India participated as the Guest of Honour Country at Cervantino Festival 2018 and this year, would be participating as the Guest of Honour at International Book Fair Guadalajara in NovemberDecember. India would be the first country from Asia to receive this honour. In bilateral trade, there has been almost 75% growth in 3 years; India’s position has risen from the

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From the Ambassador’s desk

13th to the 9th as Mexico’s global trade partner. In 2018, two-way trade crossed USD 10 billion for the first time. Mexico is now India’s 2nd biggest trade partner, after the US, in entire Americas. We have 180 Indian companies now present all over Mexico. To help business communities on both sides, we recently formed an India Mexico Business Chamber which was officially launched in the month of May in the gracious presence of Mexican Ministers of Economy and Energy. The Indian community is growing as well. The community has come together to constitute an Indian Association of Mexico to meet their social and family needs. At a personal level, our stay in Mexico has been full of warmth, goodwill and memories. My wife Rakhi gave strength and contributed to the diplomatic community life through her position as President of the Association of Diplomatic Spouses for 2018-19. We enjoyed travelling through Mexico and covered most of the states. I am thankful to Mundo Internacional for finding my contributions in promoting India-Mexico friendship worthy for naming me as the Ambassador of the Year 2018. I feel sad at departing but at the same time gratified that my stay has been fulfilling. This would not have been possible without the fullest support from all sectors- the Mexican Government, diplomatic corps, business community, cultural organizations, Indian community, media and my colleagues at the Embassy and Cultural Centre. So, big thank you. Muchas gracias y adios, Mexico!

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A DYNAMIC AND PRIVILEGED PARTNERSHIP

Ambassador Muktesh Pardeshi presented his credentials to H.E Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico on 11th May 2016.

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Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu visited India

The Foreign Minister of Mexico, Ms Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas, visited India on 11-12 March 2016 and had a substantive bilateral meeting with Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi and Smt. Sushma Swaraj, External Affairs Minister of India.

Prime Minister Modi and President Peña Nieto’s meetings raise the level and frequency of high level dialogue

At the G20 Meeting held in Hamburg, Germany in 2017

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Congratulatory messages to President AMLO

Mexico congratulates Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his re-election

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7th Joint Commission Meeting (JCM)

The 7th Meeting of the Mexico-India Joint Commission (JCM) and 4th round of Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) were held in Mexico City on June 23rd, 2017. The countries coordinated positions and collaboration schemes on bilateral, regional and multilateral issues, as well as trade, disarmament, energy and space cooperation.

Ambassadorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meetings with Foreign Ministers Ambassador Muktesh Pardeshi with Luis Videgaray, Foreign Minister of Mexico, February 2018

Ambassador Muktesh Pardeshi with Marcelo Ebrard, Foreign Minister of Mexico in February 2019 India in Mexico â&#x20AC;˘ May - June 2019

NDC Defense Delegation

A 16-member defence delegation from National Defence College, New Delhi led by Rear Admiral DM Sudan visited Mexico on a study tour in May 2018. They also visited the Naval Base in Isla Mujeres in Cancun and had meetings with their counterparts in Mexico.

Honorary Consulate in Monterrey

Ambassador Muktesh Pardeshi unveiled the Honorary Consulate of India in Monterrey by presenting a copy of the Commission of Appointment from the President of India to Mr. Mario Laborin Benavides.

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PARLIAMENTARY EXCHANGES Visits

Senator Teofilo Torres Corzo, President of the Committee on Foreign Relations, Asia-Pacific of the Senate visited India as leader of a parliamentary delegation in March 2017.

Chamber of Deputies (Lower House of Mexican Parliament) member and President of InterParliamentary Union Mrs. Gabriela Cuevas Barron called on Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu on 11 December 2018.

Mexican Parliamentary Delegation led by the President of Chamber of Deputies of the Congress of Mexico, Ms. Maria Guadalupe Murguia Gutirrez called on External Affairs Minister of India, Smt. Sushma Swaraj on 8 August 2017.

Ambassador Muktesh K. Pardeshi met with members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Asia- Pacific-Africa of the Mexican Senate and the President Cora Cecilia Pinedo Alonso.

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Mango Tree in Mexican Parliament

Ambassador Muktesh Pardeshi and the esteemed members of India-Mexico Parliamentary Friendship Group planted a mango tree in the garden of the Mexican Parliament in 2016.

Presentation of the book “Historia-Sociedad y Política en India Contemporánea” in the Chamber of Deputies

In the Chamber of Deputies, book titled 'Historia-Sociedad y Política En India Contemporánea- Miradas Interdisciplinarias' was launched by Ambassador Muktesh Pardeshi along with Commission of Foreign Relations and India-Mexico Friendship Group. On this occasion Dr. César Camacho Quiroz, Coordinator of the parliamentary group of PRI and Sra. Maria del Rocio Rebollo Mendoza, President of the friendship group were present.

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SURGING TRADE AND INVESTMENT India-Mexico Bilateral trade crosses USD 10 billion mark in 2018 Mexico has been an important economic and commercial partner of India since a long time. In the 1960s, India’s efforts to achieve food security were greatly assisted by the high-yielding hybrid wheat seed, Sonora, created by Norman Borlaug and his team in CIMMYT, Mexico. India and Mexico are now writing a new chapter in the history. In 2018, India-Mexico bilateral trade crossed USD 10 billion (source- Central bank of Mexico) and Mexico became the most important trading partner of India in Latin American region surpassing Brazil (source-Ministry of Commerce, India).

tegic Partnership”.

The trade between the two nations with millennial civilizational history was indeed growing well but the major impetus was received when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Mexico in June 2016. This was first such high level visit since 2008. The Prime Minister was received very warmly by the then President of Mexico. The visit raised the level and frequency of political dialogue between the two countries, keeping with the importance which we attach to each other. The Joint Statement issued during the visit conveyed desire of the two sides to upgrade the bilateral relations to the level of “Stra-

Trade balance has remained in the favour of India since 2014 as reported by Mexico. For 2018, the trade balance was 308 million USD in India’s favour. Indian exports registered a 4.2% growth from 5.02 billion USD to 5.231 billion USD in 2018. Our total imports registered 47% growth while only the nonoil imports registered 65% growth from Mexico. Our exports growth has suffered primarily because of the suspension on dry chilies import by Mexico since May, 2017, a market of at least 50 million USD for India.

In 2008, the total trade amounted to 2.98 billion USD. In last 10 years, the total trade has increased 240% out of which 58% came in the last 2 years since 2016. The trade increased from 6.4 billion USD in 2016 to 10.16 billion USD in 2018. About 10 years back, India was not even amongst the top 20 trading partners of Mexico but in 2018, India figures as 9th most important global trading partner. India entered the league of top 10 trading partners of Mexico in 2017.

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Inside the trade basket

From Indian side, the biggest item of export has continued to be vehicles and auto-parts since 2012, when it surpassed the electrical machineries. In 2012, we exported 466 million USD worth of commodity, which rose to 1.989 billion USD in 2017 rising by 327%. In 2018, we sold only 1.7 billion USD worth of commodity. India is the second biggest supplier of motorcars and other transport vehicles

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for Mexico after the USA. However, in 2018, the market showed shrinkage of 19% resulting in a total export of 1.2 billion USD. Volkswagen India exports “Vento” model. General Motor’s Beat is sold as Spark in the Mexican market. Hyundai’s i10 Grand and Xcent, Ford’s Figo and Figo Aspire, and Maruti Suzuki’s Ciaz are also being exported to Mexico from their India based operations.

In last few years, there have been few products, which have found new market in one, or the other country, noteworthy amongst them is the Ceramic products. In 2015, India sold only 4.325 million USD worth of commodity to Mexico and was13th biggest supplier to Mexican market. Following the efforts of Morbi Ceramics Association and the Commercial wing of the Embassy, the market for Indian product expanded. By 2017 we were selling 92.66 million USD worth of the commodity and had become the 3rd biggest supplier to this market. The exports shrunk to 79.76 million USD in 2018 but it

is in the process of recovery. Another such product has been footwear (including its parts). The Indian exports in footwear was 9.7 million USD in 2016 and India ranked 8th in the supplier’s group. The exports rose to 35.103 million USD in 2018 increasing by 262% in 2 years. It must be mentioned here that Council for Leather Industries (CLE) organized a Buyer-Seller Meet in the leather hub of Mexico – Leon, Guanajuato in November 2018 and would be returning again with more companies again in 2019, since the efforts are indeed paying off well.

Council for Leather Exports (CLE) organized a BSM in Leon – Nov, 2018

Market for glass containers has been rising constantly since at least 2013. In 2013, India exported this commodity worth 8 million USD which rose more than 100% to 20.5 million USD exports in 2018. While other trade partners showed shrinkage in this market, Indian share rose continuously, showing changing preference of Mexican consumer to-

wards Indian product. The rising labor cost in China is also a factor. H.U.T. is one big established Indian business enterprise in Mexico which imports much of this product from India. Overall, under the product category of glass and glasswares Indian exports rose from 10 million USD in 2016 to 16.95 million USD – almost 70%.

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100 Indian companies participated in Expo Ferreterra, Guadalajara in Sept, 2017

Exports in pharmaceutical products, which suffered shrinkage of market in 2017 compared in 2016 showed recovery in 2018. In 2016, we exported goods worth 95.94 million which shrunk to 77 million USD in 2017 but expanded to 120 million USD

in 2018 showing 56% increase compared to the previous year. This can be a potential sector for India where we are presently facing competition primarily from European countries.

There are new products which are still trying to find market in Mexico. One such product is agglomerated iron ore, in which Indian export to the tune of 7.56 million USD has been seen only in 2018. Some products like dried chilies lost market to Peru and China, shrinking exports from 25 million USD in 2017 to zero in 2018 because of the suspension imposed by the Ministry of Agriculture of Mexico in May 2017. In the same period the Mexican global imports rose from 64 million to 91 million USD.

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From the Mexican side…

Mexico has been an important supplier of crude oil for India. In fact, India is the third biggest market of Mexican crude oil. Mexico exported 3.73 billion USD of crude oil with an increase of 36% over the previous year. Mexico’s export to India in this commodity has always been rising. However, in terms of value it

shows fluctuation because of international prices. In 2010, Mexico exported 8.36 million barrels, which rose continuously to 50.89 million barrels in 2017. Unfortunately, the Mexican export basket is not very diversified and 75% of the basket is occupied by crude oil.

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There are still some noteworthy products from the Mexican basket. For example, Iron and Steel exports from Mexico is picking up. The export was worth 10 million USD in 2016, which rose to 24 million in 2018. Mexico also exported cooper ores and concentrates worth 30.9 million USD exploring a completely fresh market in this product.

There is a potential for export of products like silver and maize/corn which has not yet been explored by Mexico in India. Export of products like tequila and gold has a huge potential for growth, however, it depends upon the outlook of the Mexican government.

Trade Delegations One of the greatest boosters of trade between the two countries has been the constant flow of trade missions from India to Mexico. In the recent years, Mexico has seen over 300 Indian companies visiting and exploring the market almost every year. There has been regular participation from Indian delegations in some of the most reputed expo of Mexico – like InterModa, Expo Ferreterra, Expo Plastimagen and Expo CIHAC. The Embassy supports the trade mission in all possible ways. Moreover, CII, FICCI and TPCI have an agreement of cooperation with biggest chamber of commerce of Mexico – COMCE. The recently revived India Mexico Business Chamber is going be an added force for the trade missions

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visiting Mexico from India. From Mexico, the Commercial Wing has nominated and sent over 30 businessmen to various events and Expositions of India. Besides, there have been high levl delegations in various sectors as well. In 2017, several delegation visited India including the head of COFEPRIS (Drugs regulatory authority of Mexico), CEO ProMexico (national investment promotion agency of Mexico), the Governor of the state of Nuevo Leon. Recently in February 2018, the Minister of Energy of Mexico visited India and participated in Petrotech 2019.

Investments

Indian companies consider Mexico as a major investment destination with access to NAFTA and Latin America. Several Indian companies have already invested in Mexico in recent years. The three strongest performing areas for Indian investments in Mexico are information technology, pharmaceuticals and automotive sectors. India has a total investment of more than 3 billion dollars in various sectors. In auto sector, Mahindra and Mahindra has made an investment of 10 million dollars recently to setup a plant in Aguascalientes. Besides, we have JK Tyres which acquired Tornel earlier. Spark Minda, Uno Minda, Samvardhan Motherson Group, RSB Transmission, Varroc Lightings and Bajaj are some other names in this sector. In Information Technology, some of the big names are Infosys, HCL Technologies, Wipro, Tata Consultancy Services etc. In pharmaceutical sector, we have Dr. Reddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s laboratories, Sun pharma, Hetero laboratories etc. In total there are over 180 Indian companies in different sectors in Mexico. Recently, the manufacturing plant of Parle products was inaugurated in State of Mexico. Indian companies are presently creating jobs for over 30,000 Mexicans in different sectors. To improve our foothold in Mexico, the Embassy in association with PWC Mexico has brought out a publication on Doing Business in Mexico for Indian companies.

India-Mexico Business Chamber Launch

Leading Mexican companies like Cinepolis and Kidzania in entertainment sector, Tremec, Metalsa and Nemak in autoparts sector, Softec in IT, and Ruhrpumpen in infrastructure sector have likewise invested in India. NEMAK the autoparts maker, which is part of the ALFA Group of Mexico has invested US $ 11 million in a manufacturing facility in Chennai. SOFTTEK, an IT company from Monterrey recently become the first Latin American company to invest in the service sector in India, when it invested US $ 26 million in acquiring an Indian company in Bangalore. Great Foods & Beverages of Mexico has invested about US $10 million in India and has a great future for its fruit chill bars and noodles. From Mexico, the biggest investment in 2017 was made by Grupo Bimbo. They acquired a major stake in Ready Roti company, the brand holder of Harvest Gold. The cement giant CEMEX has also shown inclination for investing in India. Mexico is an important trade partner because of our old political relations and cultural proximity as well. The Indian community in Mexico is rising and because of the increasing tourist flow and Indian investments. There is a increasing people-to-people exchanges which ultimately lead to better business ties. The two countries have a great potential to prosper together. India is today seen in Mexico as big destination for trade diversification. Likewise, Mexico now being the biggest trade partner of India in Latin America is seen with great potential.

India-Mexico Business Chamber(IMBC) was launched on 2 May 2019 in Mexico City in the gracious presence of Ambassador Muktesh Pardeshi, Dr. Graciela Marquez Colin, Minister of Economy and Mrs. Rocio Garcia Nahle, Minister of Energy of Mexico. Mr. Inder Pal Singh, President IMBC, felicitated dignitaries for their presence and support. The Chamber has been formed to support the growing India-Mexico bilateral economic and commercial relationship. India in Mexico â&#x20AC;˘ May - June 2019

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4th High Level Group (HLG) on Trade Investment and Economic Cooperation

The meeting of the fourth High Level Group(HLG) on Trade, Investment and Economic Cooperation was held at the level of Commerce Secretary of India and Vice-Minister of Foreign Trade of Ministry of Economy of Mexico in Mexico City on 13-14 July 2016. The entire gamut of economic and trade relations between India and Mexico were reviewed.

Commerce Secretary Ms. Rita Teaotia called on the Minister of Economy Mr. Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal on 13 July during her visit to Mexico to participate in the Fourth High Level Group on Trade, Investment and Economic Cooperation. Ambassador Muktesh Pardeshi accompanied Commerce Secretary in the meeting.

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Doing Business in Mexico: A Guide for Indian Investors

Ambassador Muktesh Pardeshi launched a publication Doing Business in Mexico: A Guide for Indian Investors along with Mr. Paulo Carrreno King, CEO ProMexico and Juan Luis Garcia, Business Development Partner, PwC Mexico in Mexico City in June 2018.

Ambassador launching the publication in New Delhi at an event hosted by CII India.

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Engaging States

Continuing the momentum of Privileged Partnership, Ambassador Muktesh Pardeshi engaged with the major states of Mexico in an outreach to expand the domain of bilateral relationship. Partnership with states like CDMX, Aguascalientes, Queretaro, Guanajuato, Nuevo Leon and others provided an impetus to increase the bilateral trade and cultural contact between the two countries.

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TWO CULTURES MEET The Story of India-Mexico Cultural Connect By Muktesh K. Pardeshi Ambassador of India to Mexico India participated as the “Guest of Honour” Country at the 46th Cervantino International Festival in Guanajuato, Mexico in October 2018. The Cervantino Festival is the biggest and most prestigious cultural event in the Latin American region. Though India has been participating regularly since 1979, this was the first time that it made its mark as the theme country. A spectacular display of India’s composite cultural heritage at the Festival was the hallmark of the year 2018.

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ndia and Mexico are amongst the largest democracies and emerging economies of the world today. They are also amongst the oldest civilizations in the world.

La China Poblana

Historians trace encounters between India and Mexico (then known as New Spain) to the discovery of the Philippines in the 16th century. The galleons used for trade, which were called the Nao of China, linked Acapulco and Manila for 250 years (15651815) through a trade route that commercially connected the Philippines, China, Japan, Mexico, Spain and, collaterally, Peru and India. Apart from cotton, these galleons carried spices, silk and religious figures made of ivory and sandalwood. This trans-pacific trade, therefore, influenced a multitude of social factors including food habits, dress styles, artistic forms and architectural style. An interesting example is that of different varieties of Mexican chillies being taken to Goa via the Philippines, thus becoming a basic ingredient in Indian cooking. Similarly, it was found that Portuguese merchants would buy clothes from Surat and bring them to Macao on the way to Manila. Historians claim that the Mexican red kerchief used in coastal areas known as paliakate supposedly came from Calicut in Kerala.

Paliakate

The Manila galleon trade also led to human consequences. By the early decades of the 19th century, there had emerged the personage of the Indian Princess Meera alias Catharina de San Juan alias ‘la China Poblana’ in the city of Puebla, thanks to the works of Pueblan historian Antonio Carrion. The origin of the folkloric dress called 'China Poblana' is attributed to the mysterious personality of Meera, a princess born in India, who arrived in Mexico as a slave in the 17th century, as had numerous other Asian slaves. It may be mentioned here that the term ‘China’ does not specifically refer to continental China, but to the Orient. The history of Catharina de San Juan is directly connected with the phenomenon of slavery. Meera, according to her own accounts, was baptised in Cochin by a Jesuit priest with the name Catharina de San Juan. While she did not remember the place of origins except that it belonged to Mughal-governed territories, the Kingdom of Mogo or Mogor is mentioned in the archives. After her stay in Cochin, her captors took her to different ports and finally to Manila. Ever since Meera was brought to New Spain in 1621, she lived in Puebla and died in 1688. The information on her is based on three hagiographic accounts published during 1688-1692 by Jesuit priests.

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It would take another century for interest in India to be revived. The study of India began in Mexico with Jose Vasconcelos’s Estudios Indostanicos, published in 1919 in San Diego. He developed a great admiration for India. In the Prologue of his book, he wrote that “all contemporary thought should go to India in search of the essential ideas which great spirits there have worked on”. This was the first time that someone was introducing Indian philosophy to Mexican readers in Spanish. Later during his two tenures as Education Minister and Rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, his interest in India became well known; he introduced Mahatma Gandhi and Tagore, and stories of the Panchatantra and Indian epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata, into the Mexican education system.

The portrait of Catharina de San Juan

The legend of Meera is a story of unyielding spirit and symbolises an early encounter between New Spain and India. From a cultural perspective, this historic episode had influences on various cultural phenomena, including dress styles and food habits. The war for Mexico’s independence began on 16 September 1810. By 1815, the Manila galleon trade which had lasted for 250 years under Spanish rule came to a close and with that, the colonial contacts between India and Mexico also came to an end.

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In the beginning of the 20th century, an interesting cultural case of Sikh-Mexican matrimonial alliances was witnessed in the United States of America. The Punjabi Mexican American community, the majority of which is now based in Yuba City, California, is a distinctive cultural phenomenon having its roots in a migration pattern that occurred almost a century ago. For decades in the early 20th century, Punjabi farming families sent their sons out of Punjab to earn livelihood.

Intending to return to the Punjab, only a handful of men brought their wives and families. In the United States, however, due to changed immigration laws, it was not possible for the families of Punjabi workers to join them. Almost one million Mexican immigrants began entering the US in the 1910s, shortly after the Mexican Revolution, with a large percentage arriving in families. Punjabi men married Mexican women workers and there were eventually almost four hundred of these couples clustered in California’s agricultural valley. A great number of Sikh men entered the US through various routes including through Mexico. Many of them settled in Mexicali and some in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora. Most of them, subsequently, shifted to the US. Before India’s independence, some Indian freedom fighters had looked towards Mexico for refuge during the 2nd- 3rd decades of the 20th century. Indian nationalist and revolutionary M. N. Roy (1887-1954) had fled to Mexico with his wife in June 1917, and though he spent only two years and a half in Mexico, he cherished the memories of the sojourn with great fondness. The then Mexican President Venustiano Carranza and other liberal thinkers appreciated Roy's writings for El Pueblo. The Socialist Party he founded in December 1917 was converted into the Communist Party of Mexico in 1919, the first Communist Party outside Soviet Union. Pandurang Khankhoje (1884 –1967) was another Indian revolutionary and agricultural scientist who had made Mexico his home. At some time in the first decade of the 1900s, Khankhoje left India on a voyage that ultimately saw him settle down in the United States. His earliest nationalist work dates back to the time around 1908 when he, along with Pandit Kanshi Ram, founded the Indian Independence League in Portland, Oregon. He later moved to Mexico in 1923, where he became the Professor of Botany and Crop Breeding in the National School of Agriculture of Mexico. He led the Mexican corn breeding programme and was appointed director of the Mexican Government's department of Agriculture. He was naturalised as a Mexican citizen in 1932 and dedicatedly worked on forging links between the two countries. He carried a personal message of goodwill from Mexican President Miguel Aleman Valdes to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in August 1949. Finally, he returned to India in 1955, after having spent more than 30 years in his adoptive country. Right: Khankhoje at the head of table is depicted distributing bread in this mural by Diego Rivera, Ministry of Public Education, Mexico City

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In the diplomatic realm, Mexico was the first Latin American nation to recognise India immediately after its Independence in 1947 and formal relations were established in 1950. During the last 70 years, friendship and cooperation between the two nations have grown steadily. Among the Mexican people, there is wide general awareness, keen interest and regard for Indian culture, social values and her pluralistic democracy. India's recent achievements in the economic, educational, scientific and technological fields are greatly admired. Indian personalities such as Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore and Mother Teresa are widely admired. Mahatma Gandhi's statues and busts adorn major Mexican cities; major avenues and several educational institutions are named after him. The writings of Nobel-laureate and Indophile Octavio Paz, who was Mexican Ambassador to India in the 1960s, on his long experiences in India have had a profound impact in Mexico. On the other hand, Mexican mural art deeply influenced the works of Satish Gujral, artist and architect, who studied in Mexico in early 1950s under Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. He was the first Indian recipient of a Mexican scholarship and became a great admirer of Mexican muralism and after returning to India in 1954, his name became synonymous with muralism. From the very beginning of diplomatic relations, there has been a special emphasis on the promotion of mutual awareness about each other’s culture. For instance, during the visit of President Adolfo Lopez Mateos to India in 1962, an agreement was signed for the publication of an anthology of Indian literature in Mexico. Likewise, works of various Mexican authors were to be translated into major Indian languages.

One of the early agreements between two countries relates to cultural exchanges. The Agreement on Cultural Cooperation has been in existence since 1975 and these activities are carried out through fouryearly ‘Programmes of Cultural Cooperation’ under the framework of this Agreement. The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) offers scholarships to Mexicans every year, while leading Mexican institutions such as El Colegio de Mexico, whose Centre for Asian and African Studies was founded in 1964, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, both have centres of Indian studies. El Colegio has also hosted Chairs in Indian Studies in the past in collaboration with ICCR. In 1993-94, a centre of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan was established which unfortunately closed down within a few years. In recent times, the Gurudev Tagore Indian Cultural Centre (GTICC) has been the pillar of India’s cultural diplomacy since November 2010. It functions as the cultural arm of the Embassy and plays a central role in the promotion of Indian culture in Mexico. GTICC imparts classes in eleven disciplines in areas of Indian dances, music, Yoga, languages and gastronomy.

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1950 Diplomatic Relations are established.

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1975 Agreement on Cultural Cooperation signed.

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2010 Gurudev Tagore Indian Cultural Centre is set up in Mexico City.

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2018 India participates as Guest of Honour Country at 46th Cervantino International Festival.

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2019 India participates as Guest of Honour Country at 33rd International Book Fair Guadalajara.

Above & Top Right: Gurudev Tagore Indian Cultural Centre, Mexico City

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The Festival Internacional Cervantino (FIC), popularly known as El Cervantino, is a festival which takes place each fall in the city of Guanajuato, a lively and colourful city located in central Mexico. Guanajuato is the name of a rocky highland state of Mexico as well as its Capital city. In colonial times, mineral resources attracted Spanish prospectors to mine for silver, gold and other minerals. For two centuries, the state produced up to 40% of world’s silver. The city of Guanajuato is an extraordinary city, which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage City in 1988. It was founded in 1540s due to rich silver and gold deposits. Mine owners studded Guanajuato’s narrow twisting streets and charming plazas with imposing churches and mansions. The city boasts of an ingenuous tunnel network to help overcome its unique geography. In 1953, Enrique Ruelas of the University of Guanajuato began to put on an annual event called the Entremeses de Miguel de Cervantes, short plays written by the author of Don Quixote. These plays are still part of the annual Festival. In 1972, he founded the Coloquio Cervantino from June to September to expand the annual Entremeses event. Ruelas's efforts came to the attention of the federal government. Around the same time, former President Luis Echeverria had attended cultural festivals in Europe and was interested in doing something similar in Mexico. The Mexican Government then established a Foundation for an international cultural festival, originally proposing it for Acapulco. However, the tradition of the Entremeses was the main reason why Guanajuato was eventually chosen, meshing the two ideas to produce the modern event for the first time in 1972 with performances by artistes from fourteen countries including Mexico. Since then, FIC has grown to become the most important international artistic and cultural event in Mexico and Latin America, and one of four major events of its type in the world. The events take place in multiple theatres, plazas and other venues in the city, with satellite events in other plazas in the state and other cities in the country. The event represents a major tourist attraction for the city. ROLL OF HONOUR

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Quebec (Canada) Catalonia (Spain) China UK Japan/Spain (400 years of Don Quixote) South Korea/Italy Germany/France Canada

Dignitaries pose for a photograph at Teatro Juarez, 10 July 2018

India has been participating regularly in Cervantino Festival since 1979. Dr. Sonal Mansingh, who was the first Indian artiste to represent India at the Festival, fondly recalls her experience at Cervantino Festival in the following words: “I vividly remember my Mexico experience. I was dancing at the Cervantino International Festival, held in one of Mexico's most colourful and lively cities, Guanajuato. It was an open-air space in a large plaza that could house stadium-sized crowds. I was inundated with felicitations. A group of Mexican peasants wearing "sombrero" hats also came forward. They had tears in their eyes, as they sat on their knees to kiss my hands. Speaking to me in native dialects in voices cracking with emotion, they said that "they saw Jesus as I danced". One of the organisers told me that this group was the loudest in their catcalls during the items preceding my presentation”. (Sujata Prasad, A Life like No Other, 2017)

Personally, I had heard of the Cervantino Festival during my first, though brief, stay in Mexico in the early 1990s. Naturally, I was hopeful of expanding India’s presence at the Festival when I returned to Mexico as India’s Ambassador in April 2016. I met the Director General of the Festival, Mr. Jorge Volpi, on 26 August 2016 in his office to discuss our cultural collaboration, where he was very warm

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and forthcoming. During the conversation, he mentioned that he would be completing his term with Cervantino by the end of 2016 and that he had a dream to see India as the theme country some day at the Festival. That day I pondered over what Mr. Volpi had hinted at and thus the idea for India’s special participation was born. Over the next two months, we collected requisite information about the Festival and implications for the Guest of Honour Country in order to make a bid. By the end of October 2016, we had made a proposal to the Director General of ICCR, New Delhi. Ambassador Amarendra Khatua, who was then heading ICCR, had known about the Festival as he had also done a posting in Mexico in the 1990s and was persuaded quickly. In January 2017, I wrote to the Mexican Minister of Culture, expressing India’s keen interest in being the Guest of Honour Country the following year and was told of the Mexican side’s positive response in April. It was now time to initiate preparations: we had 18 months to go for India’s biggest cultural show in the Hispanic world. The 46th Festival was inaugurated on 10 October by Ms. Maria Cristina Garcia Cepeda, Minister of Culture of Mexico in the presence of Governors of Guanajuato and Aguascalientes with great fanfare at Teatro Juarez. Representing India, the Director General of ICCR, Mrs. Riva Ganguly Das, and I were present.

The inaugural show, A Passage to Bollywood, choreographed by Ashley Lobo, captivated the main plaza of Guanajuato with the scintillating presentation of a ‘movie on a stage’. In the moving lanes of Guanajuato, I witnessed amongst Mexican audience a great fondness and affinity for India’s cultural manifestations. India won many Mexican hearts. With 122 events, spread over 32 cities besides Guanajuato, this was the biggest cultural outreach of India in Mexico or for that matter, in any country in the Latin American region. Apart from a variety of performing arts such as classical, folk and contemporary dances; classical, folk, devotional and fusion music; theatre and puppetry, India’s participation also consisted of a food festival, film shows, Yoga demonstrations, exhibitions (textiles, dolls and photographs), workshops and a series of academic conferences. In order to promote Brand India, a ‘House of India’ was set up with the help of Indian business establishments. El Financiero, the leading Mexican daily, brought out a Special Supplement on the occasion. As a tribute to the people of the World Heritage City, we donated a bust of Mahatma Gandhi to the Municipality of Guanajuato. This was unveiled at Jardin Reforma in April 2019 in commemoration of the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

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At a time when India is developing a structured approach to cultural diplomacy, India’s special participation at the Cervantino Festival in 2018, followed by its participation as a theme country at International Book Fair Guadalajara 2019 may be treated as two of the most important long-term elements in its cultural relationship with Mexico. I take pride in saying that we are at the finest moment of cultural diplomacy in Mexico. It is time to have a permanent exhibition on India at Mexico’s National Museum of World Cultures to cement enduring cultural bonds between two “Privileged Partners”. India’s cultural and literary presence in Mexico would be further reinforced this year (2019) through the International Book Fair Guadalajara, where India has been invited to participate as the ‘Guest of Honour’ country. I was privileged to receive the baton from the Hon. Prime Minister of Portugal, Antonio Costa on 2 December 2018. In this connection, the National Book Trust of India (NBT) and Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara had signed a MoU in July 2018.

Our enhanced cultural presence is buttressed by overall expansion in bilateral ties, including surge in trade and investment relations. By the time India concluded its special participation at the Cervantino, bilateral trade by the end of 2018 had soared to USD 10.15 billion for the first time. Mexico is now the biggest trade partner of India in the Latin American region and India the 9th amongst Mexico’s global trade partners. It is very heartening to see that India’s economic and cultural diplomacy are complementing each other this augurs well for India-Mexico friendship. As they say in Mexico - ¡Viva India! ¡Viva Mexico!

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ICCR Day

The ICCR Foundation Day was celebrated with great enthusiasm on 9th April 2019 at the Embassy of India in Mexico. The celebrations included dance and musical performances as well as a reception hosted by the Ambassador. Ambassador Muktesh Pardeshi also unveiled the GTICC brochure related to various activities at the Centre.

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Photo Exhibition – Raghu Rai

An exhibition of the photographs of the world famous Indian photographer Mr. Raghu Rai was inaugurated by the then Minister of Culture of Mexico City Government, Mr.Eduardo Vazquez Martin and Ambassador Muktesh Pardeshi in the Museo Archivo de la Fotografia in October 2017.

Bollywood in Mexico Zee Mundo in Mexico – Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited announced its expansion into Latin America with the launch of its Spanish language Bollywood movie channel, Zee Mundo in Mexico in 2017. Zee Mundo in co-operation with the Embassy of India and GTICC also presented the first ever Indian Film Festival in May 2019. The movies Dangal, Dil Dhadakne Do, Chennai Express and English Vinglish were screened during this festival.

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Food Festivals

Demand for Indian fine dining has been rising in Mexico. Indian Food Festivals were held in Mexico City in co-operation with Hotel Presidente Intercontinental and Indian Tourism Development Co-operation in 2017 and 2018. Ambassador Muktesh Pardeshi also acted as a special Judge on the TV Reality Show–Top Chef Mexico in 2017. A new fine dine Indian restaurant – Royal India was inaugurated by Ambassador Muktesh Pardeshi in Polanco, CDMX recently. GTICC also imparts Indian cooking classes regularly.

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Courtesy of Mundo Internacional Volume 32, Number 3

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Promoting Tourism

The Embassy of India, Mexico City organized seminars on promoting tourism opportunities in India in cooperation with India Tourism Office, New York.

Un grupo de 25 mexicanos y algunos extranjeros visitaron India en febrero de 2018 en una gira especial organizada por Diva Tours. Government of India has liberalised obtaining visa to visit India through e-Visas. E-Visa is valid for 60 days and double/triple entries.

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CELEBRATING YOGA

“Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.” –The Bhagavad Gita Yoga is a spiritual discipline which focuses on bringing harmony between mind and body. The word ‘Yoga’ is derived from the Sanskrit root ‘Yuj’, meaning ‘to join’ or ‘to unite’. The practice of Yoga leads

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to the union of individual consciousness with that of the Universal Consciousness, indicating a perfect harmony between the mind and body, Man & Nature. Recognizing its universal appeal, the United Nations proclaimed 21 June as the International Day of Yoga in 2014. Indian Embassy in Mexico and the Gurudev Tagore Indian Cultural Centre has been celebrating the International Day of Yoga all over Mexico since 2015.

Yoga enthusiasm in Nayarit

5th International Day of Yoga in Mexico City

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COMMEMORATING MAHATMA GANDHI Mahatma Gandhi has been revered by the people of Mexico since decades.Recently, the Government of India has donated bronze busts sculpted by Shri Ram Sutar to the municipalities of Cancun and Guanajuato.

Unveiling of a bust of Mahatma Gandhi in Guanajuato, April 2019

Unveiling of a bust of Mahatma Gandhi in Cancun

The Museo de Memoria y Tolerancia would be organizing an exhibition on Mahatma Gandhi from July 2019.

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Chart of activities undertaken under Gandhi@150 program in Mexico and Belize Rendered by Eugenia Leon from Mexico.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RycA8LHkYm4&list=PLpSRwBxMiWRMD-

Rendering of Vaishnav Janato...- the 2NIdTm_bMuqWS23BTSbN&index=82 favorite bhajan of Mahatma Gandhi Rendered by a group of local singers in Belize.

Contribution of articles for Gandhi 1. Ms. Sonia Deotto from Mexico Anthology 2. H.E Sir Colville N. Young, Governor General of Belize Online quiz on Mahatma Gandhi Satya Varta – Talk on Internet/ Youtube

Embassy is conducting quiz over its social media platforms every week. Delivered by Ms.Sonia Deotto. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAYGLrZa8fI&list=PLtvx15Sa2mhhgeA433eDg8gh862hAa-IK&index=3

Embassy officials offered floral tributes at the Gandhi statue, Chapultepec. Embassy also organized an event in the auditoriGandhi Jayanti on 2nd October, 2018 um. Eminent Gandhian – Radha Bhatt visited Embassy and delivered a talk on Relevance of Gandhi in 21st Century. India being Guest of Honor Country at Cervantino Festival Exhibition on Gandhi as a part of Cer2018, Ambassador inaugurated an exhibition in Guanajuato in vantino International Festival,2018 October. Ora World Mandala- An Iniative for Ambassador attended the event and spoke on the legacy of Peace, Book Launch by eminent GandMahatma Gandhi. hian Sonia Deotto Talk on Gandhi at National Autono- Delivered by Embassy officials as a part of South Asia Promous University of Mexico(UNAM) gramme of the University. Exhibition on the Life of Mahatma Inaugurated by Ambassador on 9 January 2019 as part of celGandhi ebrations of PBD. Martyrs Day, 30 January

Marked at Chapultepec Park, Mexico City on the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

Festival de Arte Textil, Circuito CulGandhi movie screened at this festival along with inauguration tural Cuauhtemoc, Mexico, 8-10 Febof a photo exhibition on Gandhi. ruary 2019 Mahatma Gandhi Internet Resource 10 computers have been donated by the Embassy of India to Centre, Orange Walk, Belize Belize. The Centre was inaugurated on 21st February, 2019. Donation of bust of Mahatma Gandhi Ambassador unveiled the bust along with Mayor of Guanajuato to the city of Guanajuato on 26th April, 2019.

Upcoming events Gandhi Exhibition in Museo de Memoria y Tolerancia (Museum of Memory The exhibition will be inaugurated in July 2019. and Tolerance), Mexico City India as the Guest of Honor Country NBT to translate/publish books on Gandhi in Spanish and disat International Book Fair, Guadalajaplay as part of the India Pavilion. ra, November 2019 India in Mexico • May - June 2019

Greening Mexico

Tree plantation on occasion of the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Parque Lincoln, 17 June, 2019.

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EDUCATION AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY ITEC

Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation Programme (ITEC) is a bilateral assistance programme run by the Government of India. Since its inception,the programme has spent over US$2billion and benefited thousands of students and professionals from around the globe. In 2018, around 30 professionals from Mexico benefitted from ITEC Scholarships in various fields like Big Data Analytics, Solar Electrification, Yoga training, etc.

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Youth connection: Visits to universities

Academic exchanges between India and Mexico received an impetus with Ambassador Muktesh Pardeshi visiting major universities and institutes during his term. Ambassador Pardeshi delivered talks at Instituto de Tecnologico,Monterrey, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Universidad Panamericana, Universidad del Caribe and spoke about importance of increasing academic and cultural exchanges between the two countries. India has also donated set of books titled Bharat-Ek Parichay to the libraries in institutes for setting up India Corners.

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For a charitable cause-ACD The Association of Spouses of Diplomats A.C. (ACD) gathers the spouses of the representatives of Embassies, Consulates, and International Organizations accredited to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Mexico. The ACD is a nonprofit, social organization working since 1990â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. The ACD has more than 100 members who come from 47 countries. For the last year and a half, Mrs. Rakhi Pardeshi has been the President of the Asssociation.

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COMMUNITY CONNECT New Consular Wing

Indian Association of Mexico

Indian Association of Mexico (IAM) was registered in the year 2016 as a Not-for-Profit charitable organization. The Indian Association of Mexico organizes community festivals like Holi, Diwali and Baisakhi every year. It also conducts health check-up camps, blood donation camps and other community activities in Mexico. The Embassy also celebrates Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas to engage with the Indian diaspora abroad.

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The engagement with the Indian community abroad is an important component of our foreign policy and the Embassy of India in Mexico has actively collaborated with the community. A new consular wing with facilities for biometrics implementation has been set up in the Embassy.

PUBLICATIONS

The Embassy of India in Mexico brings out a monthly newsletter "India in Mexico" covering recent developments in bilateral relations and the activities held in the Embassy.

Celebrating India in Mexico

Doing Business in Mexico: A Guide for Indian Investors The story of India as the Guest of Honour Country at 46th Cervantino International Festival comes alive in this e-book published by the Embassy of India in Mexico and Gurudev Tagore Indian Cultural Centre. (Available online at Embassy website) https://www. indiainmexico.gov.in/article_detail.php?newsid=3zq

To facilitate the growing bilateral trade relations between India and Mexico, the Embassy along with PWC Mexico released a publication â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Doing Business in Mexico which is a comprehensive assessment of Mexican investment climate. (Available online at Embassy website). https://www.indiainmexico.gov.in/publicationpdf.php India in Mexico â&#x20AC;˘ May - June 2019

IN MEDIA

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India Week TV Capital 21

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Interviews Entrevista con Foro Global, Foro TV (Televisa) con Genaro Lozano

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MILESTONES

SEVEN DECADES OF BILATERAL RELATIONS 1950s

•Mexico became the first country from Latin America to recognize India´s Independence. India and Mexico establish diplomatic relations on 1 August 1950. •India´s first Ambassador to Mexico (with residence in Washington) Smt. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit presents her credentials to President Miguel Aleman on 8 February 1951. •Mexico set up its diplomatic mission in New Delhi in 1951.Emilio Portes Gil presented his credentials in the beginning of 1952. •India opened a resident Mission at the level of First Secretary/ CdÁ a.i. (Shri J.K. Ganju) in 1954.

1960s

•Shri P. L. Bhandari, who was serving in Mexico as Cd´A since April 1960, is appointed first full resident Ambassador. He presented his credentials on 16 October 1961. •Prime Minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru visited Mexico in November 1961. •President Adolfo Lopez Mateos visited India in 1962.

1970s

•President Luis Echeverria Álvarez visited India in 1975. •Cultural Cooperation Agreement was signed in 1975. •Agreement on Cooperation in the field of Science & Technology was signed in 1975.

1980s

•President Jose Lopez Portillo visited India on 25-30 January 1981. •Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi visited Mexico in October 1981. •Agreement on Economic Cooperation was signed in 1982. •President Shri Giani Zail Singh visited Mexico in 1984. •1st India-Mexico Joint Commission Meeting held in September 1984. •President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado visited India in 1985. •Prime Minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi visited Mexico in 1986.

1990s

•Second Joint Commission Meeting (JCM) was held in November 1993. •Third JCM was held in February 1996. •Agreement on Tourism Cooperation was signed in 1996.

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2000s •Fourth JCM was held in October 2005. •Agreement on Exemption of Visa for Holders of Diplomatic and Official Passports was signed in October 2005. •Agreement on Academic Cooperation between Ministry of External Affairs of India and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of United Mexican States was signed in October 2005. •First Foreign Office Consultation (FOC) was held in 2006. •MoU in the field of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises between the Ministry of Small Scale Industries and the Ministry of Agro & Rural Industries of India and the Ministry of Economy of the United Mexican States was signed in March 2006. •Treaty on Extradition and Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters were signed in September 2007. •Agreement on the Promotion and Protection of Investments was signed in May 2007. •Mexican President Felipe Calderon visited India in September 2007. Both countries sign a declaration on ´Privileged Partnership´. •Agreement on Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to Taxes on Income was signed in September 2007. •Air Services Agreement was signed in April 2008. •MoU in the field of New and Renewable Energy between the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy of Republic of India and the Ministry of Energy of the United Mexican States was signed in April 2008. •President Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil visited Mexico in 2008.

2010s

•2nd Foreign Office Consultation was held in July 2010. •MoU for Cooperation in Agricultural Research and Education was signed in September 2010. •Gurudev Tagore Indian Culture Centre was established in November 2010. •5th JCM was held in April 2012. •Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh visited Mexico in June 2012 to attend G20 Summit at Los Cabos. •Agreement on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Customs Matters was signed between CBEC and Tax Administrative Services of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico in October 2012. •3rd Foreign Office Consultation was held in March 2014.

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•6th JCM was held in October 2014. •MoU between ISRO and the Mexican Space Agency (AEM) concerning Space Cooperation for Peaceful Purposes was signed in October 2014. •Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi visited Mexico in June 2016. The last bilateral visit by a Prime Minister was in 1986. •4th Meeting of High Level Group on Trade, Investment and Economic Cooperation in 2016 •An Indian Association of Mexico (IAM) was founded in 2016. •An India-LAC Conlave is held for the first time outside India in Guadalajara in November 2016. •7th JCM and 4th Foreign Office Consultation were held in Mexico City in June 2017. •India participated, as the Guest of Honour Country, at the 46th Cervantino International Festival at Guanajuato in October 2018. •In 2018, Mexico emerged as the biggest trade partner of India in Latin America and the Caribbean region and 2nd in all Americas after the USA. Bilateral trade marked an impressive growth from USD 5.9 bn in 2015 to USD 10.15 bn in 2018. •To facilitate bilateral trade and investment, India-Mexico Business Chamber (IMBC) was launched in May 2019. •India, the first Asian country, to be the Guest of Honour country at the 33rd edition of Feria Internacional del Libro (International Book Fair), Guadalajara 2019.

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AMBASSADORS OF INDIA SINCE 1950 Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

1950 - 1951

Mr. B.R. Sen

1951 - 1952

Mr. G.L. Mehta

1952 - 1958

Mr. M.C. Chagla

1958 - 1961

Mr. P.L. Bhandari

June 1962 – January 1964

Mr. N.S. Gill

April 1964 – April 1967

Mr. P. Ratnam

June 1968 – August 1969

Mr. B.K. Massand

3-9-1969 to 30-9-1971

Mr. S.K. Roy

22-10-1971 to 25-9-1974

Mr. A.N. Mehta

14-10-1975 to 30-4-1979

Mr. D.S. Kamtekar

19-11-1979 to 12-6-1982

Mr. N.P. Jain

24-11-1982 to 23-6-1985

Mr. K.T. Satarawalla

27-7-1985 to 29-2-1988

Mr. U.C. Soni

7-3-1988 to 31-5-1991

Mr. R. Sen

29-9-1991 to 24-9-1992

Mr. P.A. Nazareth

30-9-1992 to 7-5-1994

Mrs. Chokila Iyer

10-12-1994 to 17-1-1999

Mr. G.S. Iyer

27-1-1999 to 31-1-2002

Mr. S.S. Gill

28-2-2002 to 31-8-2005

Mr. R.K. Bhatia

6-9-2005 to 6-12-2006

Mr. Rinzing Wangdi

2-1-2007 to 31-12-2008

Mr. Dinesh Kumar Jain

6-2-2009 to 31-7-2012

Mr. Sujan R. Chinoy

05-08-2012 to 27-11-2015

Mr. Muktesh K. Pardeshi

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Ambassador Muktesh Pardeshi is appointed India's High Commissioner to New Zealand Shri Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi (IFS:1991), presently Ambassador of India to Mexico, has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to New Zealand. He is expected to take up the assignment shortly.

Shri Manpreet Vohra to be Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next Ambassador to Mexico Shri Manpreet Vohra (IFS:1988), presently Additional Secretary in the Ministry has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Mexico. He is expected to take up the assignment shortly.

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NEWS ROUNDUP Mrs. Pratibha Patil, former President of India, presented with the Aztec Eagle

Porrua Lunch

In preparation for India as the Guest of Honour Country at the 33rd edition of FIL, Ambassador Muktesh Pardeshi had a meeting with the biggest publishing house in Mexico-Porrua Brothers to discuss areas of cooperation between National Book Trust and Porrua Brothers.

India Day at Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara

H.E. Melba PrĂa, Ambassador of Mexico to India, presented the decoration of the Mexican order of the Aztec Eagle, to Mrs. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, former President of India. It is the highest honor granted by the Mexican government to foreigners in recognition of their contributions to Mexico or humanity.

Ambassador Muktesh Pardeshi spoke on India-Mexico relations on 13th May at Universidad Panamericana in Guadalajara. The day included yoga demo, Indian cooking demo and a cultural programme prepared by TCS.

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India Week in UNAM

An India Week with classical dances, music concerts, Yoga demo,food and conferences was organized in the Centro de Ensenanza de Extranjeros, UNAM from 27 - 31st May, 2019. Ambassador Muktesh Pardeshi inaugurated the week and presented a box of books titled Bharat -Ek Parichay to the Institute.

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Feria de las Culturas Amigas (FICA 2019) Ambassador Muktesh Pardeshi inaugurated the participation of India in the 11th edition of the Feria de las Culturas Amigas in Chapultepec Park on 31st May.

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Press Conference on Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara (FIL 2019)

The full program of India as the Guest of Honour Country at 33rd International Book fair, Guadalajara was announced on 6th June 2019 by Ambassador Muktesh Pardeshi, Professor Govind Prasad Sharma and the Director General of FIL, Ms. Marisol Schultz.

India anuncia sus actividades en la FIL de Guadalajara La Feria Internacional del Libro (FIL) de Guadalajara, la Embajada de la India en México y el Nacional Book Trust de India dieron a conocer las actividades con las que India, país invitado de honor, participará en el encuentro librero. Durante la FIL, que se llevará a cabo del 30 de noviembre al 8 de diciembre, India tiene contemplada la instalación de un pabellón, la participación de más de 35 autores y 15 sellos editoriales, conferencias, tres exposiciones de manuscritos antiguos, libros de fotografía, tapices artesanales y pinturas de 40 mujeres originarias de India; así como 10 conciertos de música folclórica, clásica y contemporánea. Además de las actividades artísticas, India tiene programado festivales de cine y gastronomía, así como la instalación de la “Casa de la India”, un centro cultural de comida, artesanía y otros objetos, informó Muktesh Pardeshi, embajador de India en México. Govind Prasad Sharma, presidente del National Book Trust de India, explicó que participarán alrededor de 200 títulos de diferentes géneros, de 15 editoriales, por lo que prevén la exhibición y venta de entre mil 500 y dos mil títulos.

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Una de las exposiciones que India realizará es “Street Drishti”, conformada por obras de 40 mujeres fabricantes de impresoras del país asiático. Entre las artistas de encuentran Anupam Sud, Lina Ghosh, Rini Dhumal, Naina Dalal, Arpana Kaur, Anita Das Chakraborty, Asma Menon, Durga Kainthola y Kavita Nayar, por mencionar algunas. En el rubro científico, India llevará a cabo propuestas de Vigyan Prasar, organización autónoma del departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología del Gobierno de India, a partor de conferencias de tres científicos cuyos nombres no precisaron. Además, el Consejo de Investigación Científica e Industrial y NISCAIR, del Ministerio de Ciencias y Tecnología, realizarán seminarios. Durante la presentación que se llevó a cabo en la sede de la Embajada de India en México, donde también estuvo Marisol Schulz Manaut, directora general de la FIL Guadalajara. Ayer, la Secretaría de Cultura federal dio a conocer los proyecto que serán beneficiados a través del Apoyo a Festivales Culturales y Artísticos (ProFest), uno de ellos es la FIL de Guadalajara, que recibirá este año 5 millones 100 mil pesos.

Presentan esquema general de la India para la FIL Guadalajara 2019 Sin nombres de autores ya confirmados, pero con el adelanto de que estarán presentes alrededor de 35 escritores indios y 15 sellos editoriales, liderados por la Fundación Nacional del Libro de la India, se dio a conocer un esquema general de lo que será su presencia en la edición 33 de la Feria Internacional del Libro (FIL) de Guadalajara, a desarrollarse del 30 de noviembre al 8 de diciembre. Durante la presentación del esquema, en la Embajada de India en México —encabezado por el embajador Muktesh Pardeshi, la directora de la FIL Guadalajara, Marisol Schulz, y el director de la Fundación Nacional del Libro, Govind Prasad Sharma— se dio a conocer que el Pabellón estará basado en el paisaje de las Lenguas indias, incluso se pretende impulsar una casa de la India, a fin de de que se ofrezcan sus productos artesanales y gastronómicos. “El pabellón estará representado las lenguas de la India. En la parte de los libros buscamos la participación de entre 15 y 20 casas editoriales del país, con una oferta de dos mil títulos, al tiempo de organizar una mesa sobre la literatura de la India y la de habla hispana, centrada en la literatura para niños, pero también en temas de divulgación científica y tecnológica”, explicó en diplomático indio. El programa se inscribe en las celebraciones por el 150 aniversario del nacimiento de Mahatma Gandhi, para lo cual las actividades girarán en torno a cuatro ejes: “Libros de la India”, “Publicación de coediciones y traducciones de libros de la India al español”, “Participación de editoriales” y todo el componente académico y literario, al tiempo de rendir tributo a una de sus figuras poéticas principales, el Premio Nobel de Literatura, Rabindranath Tagore. El programa se inscribe en las celebraciones por el 150 aniversario del nacimiento de Mahatma Gandhi, para lo cual las actividades girarán en torno a cuatro ejes: “Libros de la India”, “Publicación de coediciones y traducciones de

libros de la India al español”, “Participación de editoriales” y todo el componente académico y literario, al tiempo de rendir tributo a una de sus figuras poéticas principales, el Premio Nobel de Literatura, Rabindranath Tagore. “El componente cultural es muy importante para nuestro programa. Todas las noches tendremos desde danzas de la India, clásicas, folclóricas o contemporáneas; en la música tendremos un rasgo de presentaciones desde la música clásica hasta la tradicional, y dentro de las exposiciones se plantea una dedicada a manuscritos antiguos y raros, algunos muy exóticos”, enfatizó Pardeshi La idea es llevar la cultura de India a Guadalajara, en especial fuera de la Expo Guadalajara, sede del encuentro, mediante la instalación temporal de una Casa de la India, en donde no sólo se ofrezcan productos artesanales, gastronómicos o textiles, sino también se presenten algunas actividades culturales. De acuerdo con Marisol Schulz, directora de la FIL Guadalajara, la industria editorial de la India es el sexto lugar como editor de libros en el mundo, con alrededor de 120 mil títulos; incluso es el segundo de libros en inglés, sólo por debajo de lo que se produce en Estados Unidos, a partir de que el inglés es una de las lenguas francas de la nación asiática, que cuenta con 22 lenguas oficiales. “Nos parece muy afortunada que la frase elegida como lema le pertenezca a Mahatma Gandhi, 'Que nuestras vidas sean libros abiertos', un enunciado que empata con la FIL Guadalajara, cuya misión apunta a la promoción de la lectura, al fortalecimiento de la industria editorial y a la posibilidad de encontrar en el diálogo multicultural el camino para construir mundos más justos”, dijo. El retraso en las confirmaciones de algunos de los integrantes de la delegación india que estará en la FIL Guadalajara, se debe a que el país asiático, el primero proveniente de aquel continente en ser invitado de honor del encuentro editorial y literario, tuvo elecciones generales, donde fue reelegido el primer ministro Narendra Modi.

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Más de 30 autores representarán a India en la FIL Guadalajara Con la frase del líder indio Mahatma Gandhi: “Que nuestras vidas sean libros abiertos de los que todos puedan aprender”, India arribará a la edición 33 de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara, como país Invitado de Honor, con una muestra de su vasto y diverso patrimonio cultural.

125 títulos que Vigyan Prasar (organización autónoma de divulgación científica dependiente del Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología del Gobierno de India) ha desarrollado en los últimos 30 años para la popularización de la ciencia, además de charlas sobre divulgación científica y un taller de creación de telescopios para jóvenes.

El programa del país asiático incluye actividades académicas y literarias, conferencias, mesas de trabajo de editores, presentaciones de libros, tres grandes exposiciones y nueve noches de espectáculos en el Foro FIL.

Nueve noches de espectáculos culturales que incluirán música folk, clásica y contemporánea, es lo que India regalará a los asistentes al Foro FIL. Asimismo, se realizará una presentación de danza denominada Shraddhanjali. Un tributo a la literatura india, a cargo de profesores del Centro Cultural Indio Gurudev Tagore. Se proyectará también un ciclo de doce películas de diferentes géneros, así como tres exposiciones. La Academia de Artes Lilit Kala ofrecerá un taller sobre creación de máscaras tradicionales del sur de India, y otro sobre pintura mural tradicional llamada PabujiKa Phad.

Las actividades literarias de su representación contemplan la participación de más de 30 poetas y narradores, así como autores de literatura infantil y juvenil, y estarán a cargo de la Academia Sahitya (Academia Nacional de Letras de India) y el National Book Trust de India. El encuentro de sus autores tendrá lugar en el Pabellón de India, proyecto que será una aproximación a sus paisajes y sus lenguas, con elementos visuales que remiten a la herencia del país, pero también a su contemporaneidad. En ese espacio se venderán cerca de dos mil títulos y se ofrecerá una exhibición virtual sobre medio ambiente, cambio climático, diseño y cultura india. Además, se contará con un muro digital de ilustradores y acercamiento a proyectos de diseño contemporáneo, cómics, videojuegos y transmedia. Además, se tiene contemplado un programa de divulgación científica, donde exhibirán más de

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La presencia de India, Invitado de Honor, no sólo se limitará al recinto ferial. En un espacio cercano a Expo Guadalajara, denominado Casa de India, se contará con exhibición y venta de artesanías, comida y productos indios, que será organizada por empresas mexicanas e indias, donde habrá intervenciones artísticas. También profesores y alumnos del Centro Cultural Indio Gurudev Tagore y artistas mexicanos llevarán a cabo una serie de presentaciones en diferentes puntos de Guadalajara.

Escribe la India su historia en la FIL El embajador de la India en México, Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi, tiene todo para escribir un libro de sus andanzas y logros en nuestro país, cuya misión está por concluir y, prácticamente, tendría el marco idóneo para presentarlo: la Feria Internacional del Libro (FIL) de Guadalajara 2019. Tras la exitosa participación de la nación india en el Festival Internacional Cervantino (FIC) 2018, como país invitado de honor en la que la Embajada de la India en México se movilizó con la organización de las actividades y artistas participantes, la FIL Guadalajara 2019 ha elegido también a esa patria asiática, por lo que la rutina organizativa de los diplomáticos indios, volverá a lo que da para que todo salga a la perfección. En conferencia de prensa celebrada la mañana de ayer en la sede diplomática india en nuestro país, el embajador Pardeshi, junto con Govind Paasad Sharma, chairman de la National Book Trust de la India, y Marisol Schulz Manaut, directora general de la FIL Guadalajara, ofrecieron los primeros adelantos del festín literario que se realizará del 30 de noviembre al 8 de diciembre de 2019 en Expo Guadalajara. El pabellón de la India, que estará basado en el paisaje de las lenguas indias, el cual incorpora estructuras en forma de letras con elementos visuales y funcionales, albergará, entre otras actividades: talleres, danzas, proyecciones de cine, exhibiciones de tapices y manuscritos, así como conferencias magistrales y nueve espectáculos nocturnos (uno por cada noche). En cuanto a libros se refiere, participarán más de 35 autores y 15 sellos editoriales, se mostrarán 125 títulos de diversos géneros, algunos de ellos de contenido infantil; además de que se realizará un homenaje al máximo referente de la literatura india: el poeta Rabindranath Tagore, premio Nobel de Literatura en 1913. Además, se realizará un festival gastronómico, con los principales platillos de la gastronomía india en el hotel Hilton de Guadalajara, y algunas manifestaciones artísticas en Casa de la India (recinto que se instalará cerca de Expo Guadalajara) y en las calles que rodearán la FIL 2019.

Esta fiesta, coincide con el 150 aniversario del natalicio de Mahatma Gandhi, por lo que este sábado 8 de junio, la Embajada de la India en México celebrará el legado del héroe indio y referente mundial de la paz, sembrando árboles en el Parque Reforma Social de la alcaldía de Miguel Hidalgo en la Ciudad de México, actividad a la que invita a participar a quienes lo deseen. A partir del 5 de julio, en el Museo Memoria y Tolerancia de la CDMX, se montará la exposición temporal “Gandhi, el camino de la no violencia”. Y por si fuera poco, el domingo 16 de junio, se celebrará el Día Internacional de la Yoga, en la que el mero día y días previos y posteriores se harán sesiones especiales en distintas ciudades de México: el sábado 15 de junio a las 9:00 horas, en el Parque de la Loma de Tepic, Nayarit; el domingo 16 de junio a las 8:00 horas en el Ángel de la Independencia de la CDMX y en el Parque 2000 de Querétaro capital; el viernes 21 de junio a las 9:00 horas en el Multigimnasio Socorro Cerón Herrera de Mérida, Yucatán; el sábado 22 de junio a las 8:00 horas en Playa Delfines de Cancún, Quintana Roo, y en una sede por confirmar de Acapulco, Guerrero; y el domingo 23 de junio a las 8:00 horas en el Museo del Trompo Mágico de Guadalajara, Jalisco, y a las 9:30 horas en la Plaza Nativa de Monterrey, Nuevo León. El embajador Pardeshi remarcó que su país es el primero en ser invitado de honor en dos de los eventos culturales más importantes de México: el FIC y la FIL. Lo malo, que todo indica que el diplomático no podrá presidir lo que tanto organizó para la FIL 2019, pues para entonces estará haciéndose cargo de la Embajada de la India en Nueva Zelanda, en donde seguramente seguirá escribiendo historias de éxito de todo lo que haga por aquel país oceánico.

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INDIA-BELIZE Credentials

High Commissioner of India to Belize, Muktesh Pardeshi presented his credentials to H.E Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow.

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Ambassador Muktesh Pardeshi, High Commissioner of India to Belize, signed the India-Belize Visa Exemption Agreement for holders of Diplomatic/ Official Passports with Foreign Minister of Belize Hon. Wilfred Elrington in Belize City on 18 September 2017.

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Orange Walk ITVET, an Institute for Vocational and Technical training in Belize, received fifty computers presented by the Government of India in August 2017.

Mahatma Gandhi Internet Resource Centre

Mahatma Gandhi Internet Resource Centre was unveiled by High Commissioner Muktesh Pardeshi at the Town Council of Orange Walk on 21 February 2019. The Centre has been provided with funding and assistance from India. India also went ahead with funding of two projects under India-UN Development Partnership Fund. USD 340,000 is being provided for the creation of infrastructure for Belize Youth Challenge Campus. USD 250,000 is being provided for the creation of infrastructure for San Ignacio Community Exercise, Social Sports and Womens Group Feeding Programme Complex.

High Commissioner in farewell meetings with Governor General and Prime Minister of Belize, 15 May 2019

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India-Belize Centre of Engineering

High Commissioner Muktesh Pardeshi signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Foreign Minister of Belize for the establishment of an India-Belize Centre of Engineering in the University of Belize on 20 December 2017.

Visit of Honorable Minister of State (Tribal Affairs) Shri Sudarshan Bhagat to Belize The bilateral relations between India and Belize improved with this first bilateral Ministerial visit to Belize. Minister Bhagat met the Governor General of Belize, H.E. Sir Colville N. Young and the Prime Minister of Belize, Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow. This visit gave an impetus to the ongoing cooperation projects between India and Belize.

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