PM Modi Arrives In Zagreb On First-Ever Visit By Indian Prime Minister To Croatia | India News

Zagreb: Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote history while descending to Zagreb by a HDSan Prime Minister on his first visit to Croatia by an Indian Prime Minister and pointed to an important milestone in the bilateral relationship. Zagreb is the last stop in the three -national tour of PM Modi, which includes visits to Cyprus on the way to Canada for the G7 summit in Kananaskis on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Modi on Sunday, “I visited the Republic of Croatia and President Zoran Milanovic and Prime Minister Milanovic and Prime Minister Andrej Pkenkovic for meetings with the Prime Minister Milanovic and Prime Minister Andrej Pkenkovic. Both countries have enjoyed the centuries -old cultural connections. As the first visit of an Indian Prime Minister to Croatia, will open new ways for mutual cooperation.” He said.

He also claimed that the three -national tour also had the opportunity to thank the common countries to thank India for their determined support to India in their struggle against cross -border terrorism, and the global understanding of the global understanding of dealing with every form and manifestation.

Analysts think that Indian PM’s first visit to Croatia will help encourage more powerful political and economic cooperation with Croatia. In addition, it will provide a very important opportunity to expand bilateral cooperation in various sectors such as trade, innovation, defense, ports, transportation, science and technology, cultural change and labor mobility.

India and Croatia have close cooperation in trade, investment, defense and agricultural sectors among others and also cooperates in international Fora, live cultural changes and human-human relations.

The bilateral trade between the two countries is approximately 300 million US dollars, and Indian investments in Croatia roughly are roughly around US $ 48 million.

Prime Minister Modi, COP-26 in 2021, Croatian Prime Minister Pkenkovic and Virtual Indian-EU leaders who met the same year. Former President Ramnath Kovind assumed a state visit to Croatia in March 2019, and in the meantime, in Croatia’s highest civilian honor (‘Great Order of Tomislav’).

India has been well known in Croatia for centuries, and the oldest Croatian visitors to India were missionaries. Links were found between Dubrovnik and Goa’s principality, and the Sao Braz Church was reportedly built by Croats around 1563 in Goa.

The Indian community in Croatia has changed rapidly in the last three years due to the demographic situation in which many foreign workers in Croatia were employed to do business in different sectors of the economy.

In December 2024, there were about 17000 Indians residing in Croatia. Most of the Indian workers are working on short and medium -term contracts, so at least 90 percent of those who are currently residents are part of the mobile population in Croatia for a particular contract period.