The Minister of External Affairs, the Minister of External Affairs, and the European Commerce Commissioner, Maroš Šefčovič, examined the progress of negotiations between India and the European Union (EU) on Wednesday on a free trade agreement, the two parties stressing that the agreement would increase the bilateral partnership at the higher level.
In February, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen established a deadline to conclude the FTA by the end of the year. Negotiations on the trade agreement have gained urgency in the face of global economic unsubscription created by the pricing policies of the administration of President Donald Trump in the United States.
After a meeting with Šefčovič in Brussels, Jaishankar declared in an article on social networks that the two parties recognized the “progress of our discussions for a complete, balanced and significant Ale agreement between India and the EU”.
“Currently agreed that this would raise our strategic partnership, which quickly acquires new dimensions and facets,” he added.
Šefčovič, which is the head of the European Commission for Trade and Economic Safety, said in a separate article on social networks that he and Jaishankar discussed “efforts to raise the EU -Indian partnership at the following level – by a significant commercial trade agreement”.
“We keep our strategic objectives firmly in place, and I can’t wait to see (Minister of Trade of the Union) Piyush Goyal soon,” said Šefčovič, referring to the Minister of Commerce of India who visited Brussels several times this year to give pressure on negotiations on the trade agreement.
Jaishankar, who is visiting a week in Belgium and France, also met the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, in Brussels and declared in an article on social networks that they had discussed the “strengthening of the parliamentary links of India-Eu, based on our shared values of democracy and pluralism”.
“Value its positive feelings on the progress of our business, technology and security partnership,” he added.
Jaishankar held a separate meeting with Jozef Sikela, the European Commissioner for International Partnerships, and discussed the India-EU engagement in connectivity, the Economic Economic Corridor (IMEC), Green Energies and Clean Energies.
The two parties have also signed a trilateral cooperation arrangement which, according to Jaishankar, will benefit in the world of world.
Meanwhile, in an interview with Euractiv, Jaishankar said that recent Indian-Pakistani clashes concerned terrorism which “would finally come back to haunt” Europe.
Answering a question about the international media supervising clashes as a “tit-form between two nuclear arms neighbors”, he replied: “Let me remind you of something-there was a man by the name of Osama bin Laden. Why, of everyone, felt safe for years in a Pakistani military city, right next to their equivalent point of view? ”
“I want the world to understand – it’s not just an Indian -Pakistani problem. It is terrorism. And this same terrorism will end up haunting you,” added Jaishankar.
He said India has an “older grievance” on the support of Western countries, Pakistan when he violated the borders of India only a few months after the country’s independence in 1947 by sending “cashmere invaders”.
“If these same countries – which were evasive or reluctant then – now say” let’s have a great conversation on international principles “, I think I am justified to ask them to think about their own past,” he said.
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