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New Delhi: India and the Republic of Botswana, a landlocked country in Southern Africa, have signed two memoranda of understanding (MoU) on agriculture and education with Indian Vice-President Hamid Ansari. The two sides also agreed to set up a joint working group (JWG) to review the progress in these agreements and ensure they were implemented.
On the three-day trip to Botswana, the Vice-President, said, "The Botswana side expressed great gratitude for the assistance that Botswana has received from us (India) in efforts of capacity building, including training of their defence forces."
Speaking about the MoU signed, Gurjit Singh, joint secretary (East and South Africa division) in the ministry of external affairs said that the pact on cooperation on agriculture and allied services was signed by India's high commissioner to Botswana M. Chandra and Botswana's agriculture minister Christian de Graaf.
He said this agreement would focus on agriculture research, agricultural machinery, livestock, crops and horticulture, and added that a JWG would be set up to ensure these were implemented.
"The agreement would seek to cooperate on research material, joint conferences and seminars, joint research programmes, training programmes for educational and administrators and teachers, exchanges of scholars and teachers, twinning arrangements between institutions of higher learning, development of bilateral programmes in the education sector, setting up of a chain in contemporary studies, scholarships and information technology initiatives," Singh said.
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