 Samia Siluhu Hassan, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Honorable Prime Minister, Srinarene Modiji, Honorable Ministers, Distinguished Guests, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. I welcome you to this ceremony where we shall witness some shining examples of India-Tanzania bilateral cooperation. These are by ways of exchange of memorandums of understanding and agreements between the two countries, followed by press statement by our two leaders. First, we shall witness the exchange of memorandum of understanding between the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of India and the Ministry of Information Communication and Information Technology of the United Republic of Tanzania on cooperation in the field of sharing successful digital solutions implemented at population scale for digital transformation. From the Tanzanian side, the exchange will be done by Honorable Napae Nawae, Minister for Information Communication and Information Technology of Tanzania, and from the Indian side by Dr. S. Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs. Thank you, Ministers. Next, we have the exchange of technical agreement between the Indian Navy and the Tanzania Shipping Agency's cooperation of the United Republic of Tanzania on sharing white-shipping information. From the Tanzanian side, the exchange will be by Honorable Mr. January M. Makamba, Minister for Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation of Tanzania, and from the Indian side by Dr. S. Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs of India. Thank you, sir. We next have the cultural exchange program between India and the United Republic of Tanzania for the years 2023 to 2027. From the Tanzanian side, the exchange will be done by Minister of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation of Tanzania, Mr. January M. Makamba, and from the Indian side by the Honorable External Affairs Minister of India. Thank you, sir. We next have the exchange of memorandum of understanding between the National Sports Council of Tanzania and the Sports Authority of India on cooperation in the field of sports. From the Tanzanian side, may again request Minister for Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation of Tanzania, and from the Indian side, the Minister of External Affairs to do the honors, please. Thank you, sir. We next have the exchange of memorandum of understanding between the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority under the Ministry of Port Shipping and Waterways of India and Tanzania Investment Center of United Republic of Tanzania for setting up of an industrial park in Tanzania. From the Tanzanian side, may I request Honorable Professor Kitila Mukumbu, the Minister of State for Planning and Investment of Tanzania, and from the Indian side to do the exchange, Dr. S. Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs of India. Thank you, sir. We next have the exchange of memorandum of understanding between the Cochin Shipyard Limited and the Marine Services Cooperation Limited on Cooperation in Maritime Industry. From the Tanzanian side, may I request Ambassador Ms. Anisa K. Magimbe, High Commissioner of Tanzania to India, and from the Indian side, Shri Binesh Shrikan Pradhan, High Commissioner of India to Tanzania to do the exchange, please. Thank you, Excellencies. Excellencies, this concludes the exchange of agreement ceremony. I now request the spokesperson of the external affairs ministry to conduct the next part of the proceedings. Good afternoon, Honorable President, Honorable Prime Minister, Honorable Ministers, members of both delegations, members of the media. I welcome you all to the press statements by the leaders. May I now request Honorable Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modiji, to make his remarks. Your Excellency, Lajpati Sanyasanji, the delegates of both the countries, the members of the media. Namaskar. First of all, I welcome the President and his delegation to India. This is their first trip to India as the President of Tanzania. However, they are connected to the people of India for a long time. We are trying to strengthen our relations in every part of the country. After joining the African Union as a permanent member of the G20, for the first time in any African head-up state in India, I welcome the President and his delegation to India as the President of Tanzania as a permanent member of the G20. Therefore, the importance of this trip increases many times for us. Friends, today is a historic day in the relations between India and Tanzania. Today, we, our old friends are connected to the strategic partnership. In today's battle, we have identified many new initiatives by keeping this kind of strategic partnership. India and Tanzania are important partners for the trade and innovation of each other. On both sides, we are working on an agreement to increase trade in local currencies. In order to realize the potential of our strategic allies, we will continue to search for new opportunities. In Tanzania, Africa, India's largest and nearest development partner is the ICT Centre, Vocational Training, Defence Training, ITEC, and the ICCR, which is a skill development for Tanzania and a capacity building. Water supply, agriculture, health, education, as well as important areas, we have tried to increase trade in the lives of the people of Tanzania. We will continue to do our best in the future. Through the ICT Centre, we have decided to open a campus in Janjibar in our relations. It is an important milestone. It will not only be for Tanzania, but also be a hub of high quality education for the regional countries. The development of both countries is a great technology. Today, with the help of digital public goods sharing, our community will be strengthened. I am happy that the success story of UPI is being raised in Tanzania. Friends, in the area of protection, we have created a five-year roadmap. Through this, military training, maritime cooperation, capacity building, defense industry, as well as new areas will be connected. In one area, India and Tanzania are close to each other. India is rapidly changing the clean energy landscape. I am happy that Tanzania launched the Global Biofuels Alliance in the G20 Summit in India. We have also decided to connect with the Global Biofuels Alliance. We have also decided to connect with the International Big Cat Alliance in the G20 Summit. To protect the Big Cats, we will be able to support the Biasvik efforts. Today, we have given the space and nuclear technology the strength to use it. In these important areas, we have decided to move forward by recognizing the host initiatives. Friends, today, we have also thought about the regional issues. As a member of the India-Mahasagar we have given the strength to face maritime security, piracy, drug trafficking, and other challenges. In Indo-Pacific, we are all trying. We see Tanzania as a very important partner. India and Tanzania are the one and only and the most dangerous security for human beings. In this regard, we have decided to connect with the counter-terrorism. Friends, the most important part of our relations is our strong and strong people-to-people ties. The Mandvi Fort of Gujarat and the Janjibar were opened 2,000 years ago. The origins of the Indian and the Sidi tribe were on the brink of death. Even today, the people of India consider Tanzania as their second home. To see them, to support Tanzania, I would like to thank Rajputi Hassan from Radhai. Along with yoga, the popularity of Kabaddi and Cricket is also increasing in Tanzania. We will continue to try to increase the number of people in both countries. Excellency, once again, welcome to Bahadur. Thank you, sir. May I now give the floor to you, ma'am? Official delegates from both sides of our governments, members of the press, ladies and gentlemen. I wish to once again take this opportunity to thank Prime Minister of the Republic of India and the Government of India for Coding and Vitation and precious hospitality rendered to me and my delegation since our arrival in New Delhi yesterday. This visit has provided us with yet another opportunity to cement further the excellent existing bilateral ties and bonds of cooperation to ask Tanzania in years like an extended family member which is just a cost away. There's a story that before Gandhi's return to India, he made stop to Zanzibar on his way to South Africa. And in that 19th century, he stayed in a hotel of which to date the hotel is very vibrant in its business. It's now called Temple House Hotel situated at the centre of Zanzibar Town. This and many more other tales signifies the historical brotherly ties and a friendship brotherly ties and friendship that spans the century. A friendship that has weathered all seasons from the days of Muslim winds or Muslim winds trade colonial days to officiate the relations to post-independence. Dear members of the press, this morning as Right Honourable Prime Minister said we had an opportunity to hold a candid and amicable discussion with the Government of India and from the discussion I could see and feel the passion and commitment to solidify and scale our relations to the future. My visit is occurring just a few weeks after the G20 Summit and in this connection I wish to commend Honourable Modi and the Government of the Republic of India for successful hosting of the G20 Summit. As you are aware Tanzania and India continues to enjoy an excellent bilateral ties which is to reaffirm the commitment by the United Republic of Tanzania to enhance and deepen the historic friendship and bilateral cooperation which has been existed over decades. It is also an opportunity for us to express our sense of gratitude to the invaluable support rendered by the Government and the people of India to our socio-economic members over decades. We have been working together in the development of various sectors as they have been mentioned by His Excellency but the decision by the Indian Institute of Technologies to establish the first ever overseas campus in our country is an honour and a privilege to us. We have been working in the supply of clean and safe water as well as defence and security also issues of our concern which have been adequately been worked out. On trade and investment the numbers are satisfying we are growing in investment Indian investors to Tanzania the numbers growing the value of the projects is growing as well. On trade volumes the numbers are growing as we are speaking up to 2022 our figures were $3.1 billion. So this makes India the third largest trading partner in Tanzania and the fifth largest investor in our country. So with this visit more are expected we have managed to open more avenues of cooperation for economic development as well as political development some of the areas have been mentioned nicely articulated by the Honourable Prime Minister and so I wouldn't use much time to repeat on the areas but we have agreed to open the new avenues of cooperation as well as scaling up our cooperation to strategic partnership framework. On multilateral cooperation I won't be hesitating congratulation congratulating and commending India again and again for successful hosting of G20 summit. It is in this summit that Prime Minister Modi has succeeded in advocating for Africa to become the G20 full member. He has also advocated for debt relief initiative for the vulnerable nations and declared the agency of mobilizing finances for developing countries for clean energy technologies so as to attend net zero emissions by 2050. Prime Minister we are commending him in making personal efforts to send messages of unity and not polarization advocating for reforms in U.N. Security Council and the multilateral financial institutions and the WTO to align with the changing world dynamics essential for our social economic development. Now we are aware of the coming Indian African summit and Tanzania has pledged that we will be participating fully in this summit and we are ready to play the role that will be required to play to make the summit successful. In conclusion Tanzania wishes to retreat further our commitment to closely work with the Republic of India innovating our bilateral cooperation to a strategic partnership that will advance our development agenda to greater heights. Thank you very much Shukriya Santhesana Thank you Excellency. That concludes the press statements. I thank you all for joining. Please wait until the leaders lift.