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Speaker 1: So the big news is India and the Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: has met with India's PM Narendra Modi in New Delhi

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Speaker 1: and we'll be talking with Mike Hosking shortly. Of course.

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Speaker 1: The Prime Minister has been leading a delegation into India

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Speaker 1: this week and has announced free trade negotiations will begin

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Speaker 1: next month. And that announcement came as soon as they landed. Basically,

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Speaker 1: Tom McClay was already there. I mean he lives there

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Speaker 1: now basically, and this is great for lux and politically

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Speaker 1: well at least he was thought so. So both leaders

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Speaker 1: have signed memorandums of understanding and key areas like defense,

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Speaker 1: education and forestry. And the New Zealand Herald political reporter

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Speaker 1: Adam Pearce has been traveling to India and has witnessed

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Speaker 1: the whole thing and joins you, now, hello, Adam good a,

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Speaker 1: how are you good? That welcome for Christopher Luxen was

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Speaker 1: quite something.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it certainly was. It's true what they say about

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Speaker 2: India being a bit of an assault on the census

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Speaker 2: when you first kind of land. But no, certainly it

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Speaker 2: has been all go since really minute one. We have

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Speaker 2: had free trade negotiations confirmed as resuming as of next month.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it was really something that us as reporters

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Speaker 2: traveling with the Prime minister, we were expecting that to

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Speaker 2: escually was going to be an announcement. It was going

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Speaker 2: to come towards the ends, you know, after there's been

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Speaker 2: some talks, and particularly after or at least after Prime

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Speaker 2: Mister Christopher Luxon had met with Prime Minister Mody, so

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Speaker 2: certainly set the tone for the trip. And it's really

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Speaker 2: continued with the meeting that we've had with Prime Minister

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Speaker 2: Mody today India time was yesterday in New Zealm time,

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Speaker 2: which seems to have gone gone pretty well. The pir

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Speaker 2: seemed to get on. They've spent quite a bit of

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Speaker 2: time together actually today with a couple of events that

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Speaker 2: ordinarily you wouldn't actually expect someone like Prime Minister Modi

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Speaker 2: to take pat in. So we're good signs for reluxtion.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, and he In fact, Christopher Luxson spoke at

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Speaker 1: India's Premier Defense and Security conference today just a few

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Speaker 1: minutes ago. Really and this is the first time a

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Speaker 1: foreigner has been invited to address the conference. So how

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Speaker 1: big a deal was that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, not quite the first time that foreigners addressed

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Speaker 2: the conference has been a couple of others, but it's

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Speaker 2: kind of it is primarily European leaders, so certainly significant

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Speaker 2: that we've got Christopher Luxon and the addressing, addressing a

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Speaker 2: crowd full of whether there's several heads of government there,

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Speaker 2: a lot of foreign ministers. He actually gave a pretty

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Speaker 2: good speak was it was probably about twenty minutes talking

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Speaker 2: about New Zealand's relationship with India, advertise there how they're

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Speaker 2: looking to boost defense cooperation, but also how New Zealand

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Speaker 2: and how Christopher Luxeon sees the world evolving, particularly as

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Speaker 2: we see what's going on with the US and Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump's trade war, what we're seeing with China, and how

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Speaker 2: particularly in the Pacific moving in in area, so especially

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Speaker 2: with the Cook Islands, Solomon Islands. I think so really

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Speaker 2: interesting to see his take on there. And it's quite

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Speaker 2: a form as well. This is India's premiere defense and

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Speaker 2: security conference, and he held himself pretty well. You know,

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Speaker 2: sometimes lux And as we've seen, struggles to can struggle

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Speaker 2: to hit the right notes sometimes, but I mean this

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Speaker 2: was a big deal for him to take on that role,

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Speaker 2: big deal to take on that speech, and I think

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Speaker 2: he's managed himself pretty well.

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Speaker 1: So going forward, what do these memorandums of understanding actually mean.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, I mean you can put as much value

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Speaker 2: to them as you like, but they simply signal priority areas.

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Speaker 2: You know, so education as an obvious one, right, and

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Speaker 2: education has been one of the main attractions for New

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Speaker 2: Zealand to attract people from India. You know, our quality

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Speaker 2: education facilities, and you know areas like tourism, sport in particular,

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Speaker 2: very proud sporting relationship between the two countries. So you know,

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Speaker 2: it really just does signal the way forward, the priority areas.

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Speaker 1: And rocketry obviously in defense and also their space aspirations

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Speaker 1: and not dairy which you can understand they don't need

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Speaker 1: us now, but they might need us in the future.

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Speaker 2: Well that's the thing we've often heard from christ Lux

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Speaker 2: in the days, you know, from when this trip started,

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Speaker 2: about how India's population is changing. It's becoming more wealthy,

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Speaker 2: there are more people entering that middle class and therefore,

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Speaker 2: you know, those those specific niche markets that dairy can

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Speaker 2: can access will become bigger, offering up opportunities. However, you know,

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Speaker 2: the majority of the dairy industry here in India, small

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Speaker 2: scale farming outfits. And as we've known, both past negotiations

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Speaker 2: have not been successful because they want to protect their market.

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Speaker 2: So it'll come. Who knows when.

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Speaker 1: Yes, exactly right. Dairy came in twenty years after the

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Speaker 1: Chinese Free Trade Dealer, and it will come. They've got

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Speaker 1: three hundred million towns and India low yields two liter

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Speaker 1: a cow. We're at like eight. They will need.

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