Donald Tusk to visit India for Modi talks and business meetings on October 21–23

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is scheduled to visit India from October 21 to 23 at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation, India’s foreign ministry announced on October 19. Tusk and Modi are due to meet in New Delhi on October 22 to review bilateral ties, while business engagements are planned in New Delhi and Bengaluru. The visit follows the countries’ decision to elevate their relationship to a Strategic Partnership in 2024.

What Tusk and Modi plan to discuss

The Ministry of External Affairs said the leaders would discuss regional and global issues of mutual interest alongside India–Poland relations. It identified trade and investment, defence, emerging technologies, renewable energy, education, culture and people-to-people ties as areas for closer cooperation. The agenda spans both commercial interests and wider diplomatic questions, but the ministry described opportunities for cooperation rather than specific agreements to be signed during the visit.

Business forums in New Delhi and Bengaluru

Tusk is expected to be accompanied by Andrzej Domański, Poland’s minister of finance and economy, and a large business delegation. India–Poland Business Forums are scheduled for New Delhi on October 22 and Bengaluru on October 23. The forums put companies on the itinerary as the governments consider how to develop the trade and investment relationship outlined in the ministry’s agenda.

After his New Delhi engagements, Tusk is scheduled to travel to Bengaluru to meet business stakeholders, including people from the information technology and space sectors, the IANS report carried by The Hawk said. Those meetings place the delegation in contact with sectors relevant to the broader discussion of emerging technologies. No commercial deals have been announced for the planned meetings.

This would be Tusk’s second visit to India as Polish prime minister, following a visit during an earlier term in 2010, ANI reported. He also visited New Delhi in 2017 as president of the European Council, according to the agency. The scheduled trip will therefore bring him back in his role as Poland’s prime minister after the two countries established their strategic partnership.