Come and join new global deal, Britain invites India

Brown said Indo-British partnership was now stronger than ever before and “it will strengthen in the years to come.

“It will not simply be a partnership for India and Britain but will be partnership that will benefit the whole world,” he told the Annual Luncheon of the Labour Friends of India (LFI) yesterday.

Describing Indo-British relations as close, Brown said India and Britain should jointly rebuild a string of international institutions from the United Nations to the Group-8 and even create new ones like a “World Bank for the Environment”.

“I look forward to working with the Indian government and the Indian people in a major programme of the reform of the international institutions that will recognise the rising importance of India in the world but recognise also that India, Britain and other countries working together are the only means by which we can create the type of world that gives us peace, prosperity and sustainable development,” he said.

Brown said both the countries are already working together to consider formation of a “World Bank for the environment.”