New Delhi (India), April 4 (Ani): India and the European Union are about to finalize a free trade agreement (ALE), strongly progressing negotiations, secretary (west) Tanmay LAL of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Friday during a special media point.
He made these remarks while addressing the media while information on the next visit of President Droupadi Murmu in Portugal and Slovakia, from April 7 to 10.
Speaking on the India-EU-EU FTA negotiations, the secretary LAL underlined the recent OG empty that the commissioners of the OG college led by the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and stressed how PM Modi and the president of the EC had ordered the finalization of the ALE during this year.
He said: “about India-EU-EU FTA, during the recent visit to the College of Commissioners led by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the leaders, Prime Minister Modi and the President of the EC, had decided to lead their teams to finalize the Indian-EU FTA during this year. So, this was very clear. The negotiations are underway and the two teams will take the final in a very strong way. Soon.”
On February 28, Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the partnership between India and the European Union, qualifying the strategic partnership between them as “organic and natural”. In addition, he said that a free trade agreement between India and the European Union can be expected by the end of this year. He made these remarks during his joint press statement after his meeting with the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen in Hyderabad House in New Delhi.
During the joint press conference, Ursula von der Leyen had noticed: “I am here today with the whole college of commissioners. Indeed, it is our first visit outside Europe since we took office in December. (Ani)
(History came from a unionized flow and was not published by the staff of Tribune.)
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