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Working visit to India
1 October 2012 - 3 October 2012
Three days in New Delhi, one theme per day. On 1 October, health: with Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, Alain Berset agrees on a memorandum of understanding (universal coverage, non-communicable diseases, medicines, complementary medicine), to be signed at the 2013 World Health Assembly. He also sees the Minister of Culture, Kumari Selja, and presents Swiss foreign health policy at the Public Health Foundation of India.
On 2 October, culture, with Pro Helvetia. On the 3rd, science: with Minister Vayalar Ravi, he signs a joint declaration on scientific cooperation for 2013–2016 and opens the joint committee of the Indo-Swiss research programme, extended to renewable energy and biomedicine.
Monday 1 October 2012 — New Delhi
- Meeting with Ghulam Nabi Azad, Minister of Health and Family Welfare
- Visit to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
- Meeting with Kumari Selja, Minister of Culture
- Speech at the Public Health Foundation of India
- Reception at the ambassador’s residence
Tuesday 2 October 2012 — New Delhi
- Meeting with the Pro Helvetia liaison office and artists in residence
- Visit to Humayun’s Tomb with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture
- Visit to the Sanskriti Foundation
Wednesday 3 October 2012 — New Delhi
- Meeting with Vayalar Ravi, Minister of Science and Technology, and signing of a joint declaration
- Opening of the joint committee of the Indo-Swiss research programme
- Visit to the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
- Visit to the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
- Meeting with the Swiss media
- Working dinner with Indian figures
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