India and Bahrain on Saturday agreed to sign a deal in the areas of space technology, culture exchange and solar energy as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held with comprehensive talks with his Bahraini counterpart Prince Khalifa Bin Salman AI Khalifa to have a big morale boost to the entire spectrum of the bilateral relations.
Modi, the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Bahrain, and Prince Khalifa after the delegation-level talks witnessed the exchange of the Meeting of Memorandum in the areas of space, culture, and collaboration with the International Solar Alliance.
The ISRO and Bahrain National Space Science Agency agreed to collaborate in the areas of space technology.
The two sides also agreed on the collaboration of the Kingdom with the International Solar Alliance.
The ISA revealed in 2015 by the Modi, and then French President Francois Hollande at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris is a major global initiative for contributing to the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement with the help of massive and rapid deployment of solar energy.
“Honoured to have met HH Prince Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bahrain. Our talks were comprehensive and included a wide range of subjects concerning India-Bahrain relations,” Prime Minister Modi tweeted after the talks.