New Delhi, March 11 -- Strengthening the bilateral economic partnership, including securing a trade deal, and bolstering security cooperation in the Indo-Pacific will be the centrepiece of New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's visit to India next week.

Luxon, who will be accompanied by one of the largest political and business delegations to travel with a New Zealand premier, will be in India during March 16-20. Besides holding talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, he will go to Mumbai for meetings with business leaders.

He will also deliver the keynote address at the inaugural session of the Raisina Dialogue, India's flagship conference on geopolitics and geo-economics, on March 17. This is the first time the spe...