New Delhi, April 4 -- At the invitation of the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Christopher Luxon, paid an official visit to India on 16-20 March 2025. On March 17, the New Zealand Prime Minister met PM Modi in New Delhi. An important outcome of the meeting was the strengthening of the defence and security cooperation between India and New Zealand. In the joint statement issued after the meeting, both the Prime Ministers recognised that both countries faced an "increasingly uncertain and dangerous world. They noted that, as maritime nations, India and New Zealand have a strong and common interest in an open, inclusive, stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific, where the rules-based international order is...