Ministry of External Affairs Secretary (Economic Relations) Dammu Ravi on Tuesday highlighted that Kenya showed interest in trading in national currency with India, adding that Kenyan authorities want to hold a meeting with us regarding the same.
Agriculture and education took centre stage as an intriguing development emerged after Kenya expressed its intent to offer agricultural farmland to Indian companies, aiming to promote farming activities in the region.
India and Kenya are unanimous that terrorism is the most serious challenge and the two countries have decided to increase mutual cooperation in the field of counter-terrorism, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Tuesday.
Ruto said he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have agreed that defence forces of India and Kenya will work together in collaboration, sharing information, experience, knowlege and intelligence to ensure that they deal with the challenge of terrorism.
"Honored to call on Kenyan President @WilliamsRuto at the start of his State Visit. Appreciated his perspectives on the concerns of the Global South. Valued his insights for the further strengthening of our bilateral ties," posted Jaishankar on X.
During his stay in India, Ruto will meet President Murmu. He will be accorded a ceremonial welcome at the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhawan on December 5, as per a release issued by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Defence, Aden Bare Duale arrived in New Delhi on Monday on a three-day visit to India and will hold talks with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
India's expertise and experience could help Kenya not only in building population-scale public goods (DPGs) - a set of networked, interoperable utilities like Aadhar, (UID), UPI, eKYC, Account Aggregator (AA), Open Credit Enablement Network (OCEN), Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), b