India and France signed an Administrative Agreement in the field of Sustainable Urban Development. India could benefit immensely from the French experience.
The Agreement would provide an enabling platform for the officials, professionals, business leaders and local self-governing bodies to meet and share knowledge and best practices in the urban sector. India invited international firms including French firms to participate in the process of making cities greener and more sustainable.

India and Austria signed an MoU on Technology Cooperation in the Shipping and Ports Infrastructure.
There has been regular exchange of high level visits b/w the two nations during which the special emphasis is put on strengthening economic and commercial cooperation and scientific cooperation.

How Austria is important for India?
Austria has importance as it plays active role in international organizations. Geographically, as the country is centrally located in the heart of Europe and historically, linkages and legacy with the countries of the region, Austria can serve as a gateway to upcoming market economies in Central & East Europe. High-end technology is Austria`s bastion in several specialized areas of interest to us, particularly in infrastructure.
India can utilize Austria’s technology in the areas like implementation of International Ship & Port Security code, use of radio frequency identification in logistics and transport planning and optical character recognition in terminals to speed up the processing of containers in and out are the areas.

India and China agreed to enhance defense ties. Both the countries agreed on improving the friendly, strategic and co-operative partnership and exchange of young officers and high level visits. They also agreed on inter-collegiate exchange that includes non-traditional security fields. During the joint Naval Exercise in Shanghai, both the countries agreed on furthering the process of military exchange that includes maritime operations and navy.  

During the visit President of the Republic of Burundi, India and Burundi signed 3 major agreements, which are as follows:

(i) Exchange Programme for Cooperation in the field of Education

(ii) MoU on Cooperation in the field of Rural Development

(iii) MoU on Cooperation in the field of Health and Medicine. 

In addition to this India announced a Line of Credit of 42.38 million US dollars for Farm Mechanization and Integrated Food Processing Complex in Burundi.

Besides, both the nations issued a joint statement. Major highlights of the joint statement:

· Both the country agreed to enhance the bilateral cooperation in view of the considerable untapped potential.

· Burundi thanked India for approval of a concessional line of credit of 80 million US dollars for the Kabu –16 Hydro-electric project.

· Both the countries agreed to continue strengthening cooperation in the areas of economy, trade and investment, finance, human resource development, culture, etc. while endeavoring to intensify cooperation in other potential sectors such as agriculture, food processing, ICT, science & technology, health, mining etc.

· Burundi extended its support for India’s candidature for Permanent Membership in an expanded United Nations Security Council.

An MoU was signed b/w India and Britain focusing on urban regeneration and development. The pact envisages promotion of cooperation in areas including sustainable master planning, transport planning and land economics. It also visualizes promotion of cooperation in areas of heritage management, regeneration governance, regeneration capacity building and public private partnership financing arrangements. India seeks to benefit from the British experience is urban regeneration works. The pact is particularly important as India would soon launch the next phase of the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission and that the Centre was keen on encouraging PPP in urban sector, especially in larger cities. The international firms including British firms were invited to participate in the process.