Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India's growing economic strength and the India–European Union Free Trade Agreement have broadened opportunities for the India–Poland partnership. "Our growing economic strength has created new opportunities for the India-Poland partnership. And the India-European Union Free Trade Agreement has made these opportunities even broader," Modi said at a joint press meet with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at Hyderabad House, ANI reported.

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The two leaders held delegation-level talks to review the entire spectrum of bilateral relations and witnessed the exchange of key Memoranda of Understanding before the press meet. The Indian delegation included External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, ANI reported.

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Welcoming Tusk, Modi recalled his 2024 visit to Poland, when the two countries elevated relations to a Strategic Partnership, and said the friendship is rooted in a shared heritage of humanity and empathy — recalling that the royal families of Jamnagar and Kolhapur sheltered thousands of Polish children and families during the Second World War. Tusk said he was proud to call Modi his friend and that India and Poland have no conflict of interest, ANI reported.

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Visit continues to Bengaluru on October 23

Earlier on Thursday, Tusk laid a wreath at Raj Ghat and Jaishankar called on him to discuss deepening cooperation. Tusk, who arrived on October 21 for a three-day visit — the first by a Polish prime minister to India since 2010 — is accompanied by Finance and Economy Minister Andrzej Domanski and a business delegation, and will join the India–Poland Business Forum in Delhi before travelling to Bengaluru on October 23 for meetings with IT and space-sector leaders, ANI reported.

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