Presidents, PMs, Deputy PMs, foreign ministers, Nobel laureates to attend Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2017

Gandhinagar: Presidents and Prime Ministers of four countries are likely to participate in Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2017 scheduled to take place next month. They are president of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta; president of Rwanda Paul Kagame; prime minister of Portugal António Luís Santos da Costa and prime minister of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic.

Deputy prime minister of Russia Igor Shuvalov; deputy prime minister of Paland Piotr Glinski; and foreign affairs minister of France Jean-Marc Ayrault are also going to participate in Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2017.

Ministers from foreign countries

Other dignitaries who would be coming for summit are minister of economy , trade and industry , Japan, Hiroshige Seko; and British ministerial delegation from UK led by Priti Patel, secretary of state for international development, UK.

Supporting organizations

The event will be supported by 7 partner organizations; Australia India Business Council, Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce, Japan External Trade Organization, UAE India Business Council, UK India Business Council, US India Business Council and British Council.

Partner countries

Vibrant Gujarat now has a total of 12 official partner countries, namely , -Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, UAE, UK and USA and Sweden.

Nobel laureates

Six Nobel laureates, including Indian-origin structural biologist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, have agreed to take part of the Vibrant Gujarat Summit.US Nobel prize-winning scientist Harold E Varmus; American physical chemist and chemical physicist William Esco Moerner; American cell biologist Randy Wayne Schekman; Israeli crystallographer Ada E Yonath; and American theoretical physicist David Jonathan Gross are the other Nobel-winning scientists who will be present at the biennial event. The laureates would be part of the Nobel Prize Series Exhibition and Nobel Laureate Symposium which are happening for the first time in India at a Vibrant Gujarat Summit.

Official delegations from abroad

From the US, Canada, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sweden, Singapore and some important Middle East countries, official delegations are expected.

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