India-European Union relationship consequential for world also: EAM Jaishankar
European Union as «consequential for the world as well,» External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said the EU is not only «our largest economic partner,» but the ties run «very deep, spanning many domains.»
Extending felications to EU's Ambassador to India, Herve Delphin, Jaishankar said, «I think today the relationship between India and the European Union is not only consequential for each one of us but also for the world as well. The EU is our largest economic partner, but it is more than that.»
«It is an entity with which we have, really, a very deep relationship spanning many domains...not just in the relationship between New Delhi and Brussels but in the regional and sub-regional formats in which we engage each other and in a range of institutions that we both are members of and where we collaborate with each other. And of course, an important element of that is economic relationship,» Jaishankar said in his address at the Europe Day Celebrations here in New Delhi.
Notably, the External Affairs Minister was the chief guest at the event commemorating Europe Day, which is celebrated on May 9 every year to celebrate peace and unity in Europe.
Jaishankar said that it is the need of the hour to have more «resilient and reliable» supply chains.
He said, «A fact that we are one of, I think, your two partners for trade and technology council, that, in many ways underlines not just the present of our relationship and the importance as well.»
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