Aware of Delhi’s close ties with Moscow, visiting Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday that India and Poland have “no conflict of interest” and their pursuit of “shared goals” in the space industry, digitisation, satellites, state-of-the-art defence systems can deepen the strategic partnership between the two countries.

Following their bilateral talks, Modi said, “Today we have agreed to deepen ties in defence, space and nuclear energy. We invite Polish companies to engage in co-development and co-production with India in all these strategic areas.”

The two sides agreed to establish a defence industry dialogue and a counter-terrorism dialogue, two critical areas of strategic cooperation.

Over the last five years, more so after the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine, two countries with which it shares a border in the north (the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad) and southeast, Poland has been ramping up its defence industry.…