Wednesday, October 1, 2008

German Chief Minister Christian Wulff visits India from 03rd to 06th of October 2008

Christian Wulff, Chief Minister of the German State of Lower Saxony is going to visit India from the 03rd to the 06th of October 2008. The Chief Minister is accompanied by the Minister of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony, Mr. Lutz Stratmann, and a high ranking 70-member business delegation. The State of Lower Saxony is home to Volkswagen, Europe's top-ranking carmaker, and hosts Hanover Fair, the world's largest industrial fair. Chief Minister Wulff and delegation will visit Mumbai on the 03rd, Pune on the 4th and New Delhi on the 05th and 06th of October. In the capital, the Chief Minister will be received by Hon. Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Kamal Nath. 

In Mumbai, Chief Minister Wulff will inaugurate a representative office of the State of Lower Saxony. The office which is being set up in the Indian representative office of Deutsche Messe will promote the State of Lower Saxony in India as one of Germany's key business locations in the heart of Europe. As of today, India has already become one of the top three trading partners of Lower Saxony outside the European Union. In Pune, Chief Minister Wulff will visit Volkswagen which is setting up a new factory for car manufacturing in the framework of its 600 Mio EUR investment in India.

Lower Saxony is one of Germany's sixteen federal states and an economic power house with a GDP of 206.6 billion euros (2007). Famous for its annual trade fairs such as the Hanover Industrial Trade Fair in which India was the partner country in 2006 and CeBit - the world's largest IT fair - Lower Saxony marks its importance in global trade and Indo-German economic relations. While the region around Lower Saxony's capital Hanover alone is home to 1,200 IT companies, 25 renowned institutes and research organizations, an Indo-German Business Center in Hanover fosters bilateral trade with India.


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