Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak on Wednesday signed the joint statements including new UK-India Partnership on Infrastructure Policy and Financing to support the Indian National Infrastructure Pipeline with UK commercial expertise and financing. At the first session on Global Responses to coronavirus during the 10th India-UK Economic and Financial Dialogue (EFD) through video conferencing, India and the UK entered into a strategic partnership to accelerate the development of Gujarat International Finance Tec (GIFT) City as an international financial centre, including regulatory capacity building support for the new International Financial Services Centre Authority.