Chennai: Denmark said India is going to come out of the coronavirus pandemic as one of the ‘global winners’, and it was looking forward to majorly expand bilateral cooperation in areas of clean energy, water and food processing under a green strategic partnership.
Ambassador of Denmark Freddy Svane said several leading Danish companies were interested in investing in areas like renewable energy, environment, shipping and innovation in India.
Foreign ministers of the two countries are working on an ambitious action plan comprising specific targets to achieve the goals broadly mentioned in the “India-Denmark Green Strategic Partnership,” Svane said.
The green partnership, finalised at a virtual summit between the prime ministers of the two countries, aims to create a framework for significant expansion of cooperation in areas of renewable energy, environment, economy, climate change and science and technology.
“It is a partnership of the new age as it is really focusing on a green transition,” Svane said.
On post-Covid recovery, Denmark was confident that India was going to come out stronger from the pandemic.
“I think India is going to come out of the pandemic as one of the global winners. The number of Covid-19 cases in India has gone down drastically while in Europe, we have a spike,” Svane said. He said a strong pro-active India is in the interest of the world.
“India really built not only the present by effectively handling the situation (following the pandemic), it also looked at the future. Built some fantastic systems,” he added.
He also mentioned how India reached out to several countries and supplied medicines initially, and is sending coronavirus vaccines now to help them deal with the pandemic.
