LONDON, 16 March, 2021 (TON): The PM office said on Monday, the PM of the UK Boris Johnson will visit India at the end of April.

PM Boris’s visit will be the first international trip after the U.K.’s Brexit exit from the EU.

To enhance and boost trade talks between the two countries, Boris planned the visit in January this year but canceled it due to a pandemic crisis.

At the time, his office said he had hoped to rearrange the visit before Britain hosted the meeting of leaders from the Group of Seven rich nations in June, which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to attend as a visitor.

The foreign minister Dominic Raab said in December last year, “We are pursuing trade deals from Australia to the U.S. and around the world particularly in the Indo-Pacific region, a huge growth market for the future."

However, as part of the U.K.’s Integrated Review of government policy for the coming years,  Johnson's government said it would tilt its focus towards the Indo-Pacific region, saying the area increasingly represented the geopolitical center of the world.