Rome, May 18 -- India and Italy are set to expand cooperation across trade, defence, mobility, and maritime security as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi first bilateral visit to Rome, Indian Ambassador to Italy Vani Rao said on Monday.

Speaking ahead of PM Modi's visit as part of his five-nation tour, Rao said the trip would provide an opportunity to "review our cooperation with Italy and to also be more aspirational about what we want to do with Italy in the future."

She outlined four key areas of focus for the high-level engagement, with trade, defence, mobility and maritime security and ports as key priority sectors for talks, while highlighting the growing strategic convergence between New Delhi and Rome in the Indo-Pacific and ...