 Members of the media, ladies and gentlemen, I welcome you to today's ceremony, where one document will be exchanged. We have the MOU on India-Norway Ocean Dialogue between the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Norway. This will be exchanged on the Norwegian side by His Excellency, Mr. Nils Ragnar Kamsvog, Ambassador of Norway to India. And on the Indian side by Sri Gita Sharma, Secretary of the West Ministry of External Affairs. Excellencies, this concludes the agreement exchange ceremony. I now request the spokesperson of the external affairs ministry to conduct the proceedings. Thank you. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I welcome you all to this press statement event. To begin the proceedings, may I request the Honorable Prime Minister of India, Shri Narayanan Modiji, to deliver his statement to the press. Your Excellency, Pradhan Mrdi Hanna Solberg, Norway's Aya Sabhi Vishis Tathirikaan, friends. Last time I met the Prime Minister Solberg in Stockholm, I gave him the invitation to come to India. And I am pleased that today I had the opportunity to welcome him to India. Prime Minister, this is the first Indian trip. And because of this, I would like to express my gratitude to the people of Rai Sinha Dialogue. For this, I would like to express my gratitude to them. Friends, in 2017, when I met the Prime Minister Solberg during the G20 summit, he had sent me a football. By the way, last year, the world's most well-known Golden Ball player, Norway's female football player, Adha Hegerbar, met him. And for this, I congratulate Norway on every day. But Prime Minister gave me the football. His opinion was something else. But football wasn't about the goal of the game. Rather, it was about sustainable development goals. Prime Minister Solberg has given a lot of attention to the sustainable development goals. In his journey, Prime Minister Solberg has also established a new Green Embassy in Norway in India. And so, for Prime Minister's best wishes, I wish him as much happiness as possible. Sustainable Development Goals also eat a lot of mail from the development goals of India. And for us, this is about both countries and the Norway-India Partnership Initiative. We are working very hard on this. But in the relations between India and Norway, trade and investment is very important. Norway's Government Pension Fund Global has invested nearly $12 billion in portfolios in India. I am pleased that with Prime Minister, more than 100 companies from Norway have come to India. Yesterday, in India-Norway Business Summit, with their Indian business leaders, there was a positive interaction. I am sure that in the coming times, portfolio news and foreign direct investment both companies will benefit from the support of India. Especially, in the environment of the world, in shipbuilding, ports and port let development, Norway's companies are being closed for long. Friends, the related issue is about the Ocean Economy. This area is very important for the development and prosperity of India. 15% of the people of India live in coastal cities. Their lives are connected to the ocean economy. And if you look at the unprecedented appearance of the coastal state of India, it is far more than 500 million people. And on the issue of the ocean economy, you can assume the concept of Norway's glory from this point of view, that in the course of Norway, 70% of the people of Norway are from the marine industry. And that is why I am happy that today, in this important area, the union has a new beginning in our relations. Our bilateral ocean dialogue will guide our union in all sectors related to this area. Friends, on the international level, the union between India and Norway is very strong. UN Security Council reforms, multilateral export control raising, and many other things like terrorism, on which we are working very closely with the union and the region. Today, we have discussed all areas of our union and also discussed the new energy and direction. Excellency, you accepted my invitation to come to India. Once again, I would like to thank you once again. In the evening, I hope that your trip to India will be very happy and successful. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Now it is my pleasure to invite the Prime Minister of Norway, her Excellency, Mrs. Anna Zalberg to deliver her statement. Yes, thank you very much for the warm welcome that I and my delegation have received during our visit to India. And I think we have increased the partnership between our two countries, and we have reviewed them during this meeting today. I think the partnership between our two countries are moving in a very positive direction. We've had fruitful discussions on a broad set of issues, including how we can accelerate progress towards sustainable development goals, and steps we can take to further strengthen our bilateral ties. And given the importance of India's economy and the size of its territory and population, the world will not be able to reach the sustainable goals unless India is on board. And I have seen impressive improvements and work done in India, especially on a favorite subject of mine, women's empowerment, where the work is going hard on. Women as a force in local communities should be even further strengthened in the years to come. Access to education, to quality education, to make sure that they are participating in the workforce and making the most of their talent. I usually say that no country is rich enough to not use half of the talent in their population. And I saw yesterday on my field trip that you are doing hard work to really accelerate women's participation and women's empowerment. As the world largest democracy, India plays an important role both regionally and globally. We've had an open and constructive dialogue on how we can work more closely together to protect and develop rule-based international governance. I think it's important that both big countries like India and smaller countries like Norway join forces to work for the benefit and talk about the benefits of multilateralism in a time where there is increased protectionism. Multilateralism is not just about trade and economy, it's also about making the international organizations function, for example through reform of the UN. The UN needs to reform in the way they are working. And they need to be representative of the world the way it looks today, not the world as it was seen in 1940s. We have to make sure that that is a change in the future. But we also have to make sure that we are delivering good services in the multilateral to the people of the countries that we are governing. The question is also always, do we manage to put our policies into a practice where we are increasing the benefits and that's about what the 17 SDGs is all about. We have agreed to intensify our cooperation on issues relating to the seas, to a new joint task force on the blue economy, focusing on integrated ocean management. India is an ocean country. We first started our practical cooperation through fishery projects between Norway and India, and we are intensifying the work in the future on the ocean economy. Oceans are important for jobs, for clean seas, for resources. It's one of the least explored parts of the world, which is below the ocean. It can create more jobs, more medicine, new experiences for us all. That means we have to keep it clean, and we have to manage the resources so that it both benefits the people, but also in a generational perspective that we have clean oceans in the future. We have identified new opportunities for collaborating in fields, also such as energy, climate and the environment. The Norwegian government recently launched a new strategy for our engagement with India. This is a testimony to how important we attach our bilateral relations. The strategy outlines priorities and a common direction for the various sectors of the Norwegian governments in the time ahead. India's rapid economic development provides a good basis for forging new ties between our private sectors. On this official visit, we have been accomplished by a large and diverse business delegation from Norway. They have been discussing with Indian partners for two days. They show that there are great opportunities in jobs in both countries, in making sure that we can both grow and create benefits to our societies by cooperating. That is in our both our countries interests, and it's an example on how international cooperation and international trade in fact is a benefit to the rest of the world. We need to make sure that we create more jobs in the world in total. Good agreements and cooperation between businesses is important for that. So I look forward to seeing more Indians in Norway and more Norwegians in India to create jobs and economic opportunities. Prime Minister Modi and I shared the view that there is a large untapped potential for developing strong links between Norwegian and Indian private sectors and I think we have started on finding new areas to work and on the research and development where we already have a large involvement which we can increase even further in the future. And finally, as I've said, this has been a very nice welcome for us in India and I hope I have the pressure of welcoming you back to Norway. I haven't invited Prime Minister Modi to come to Norway and I look forward to receiving you there. I hope you will find the time. Thank you very much. Thank you, Excellency. This concludes the press event. Thank you all for joining me.