'One District One Product' expresses India's diversity in very unique, tangible way: EAM Jaishankar
foreign policy, its foreign economic policy and its foreign commerce policy, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that the three were not distinct but phases of the same policy.
He also lauded the 'One District One Product' initiative, which he said represents the diversity of the country in a very «unique and tangible» way.
The External Affairs Minister also felicitated the ODOP winners at the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Utsav Celebration here in the national capital.
Addressing the event today, Jaishankar said, «Foreign Policy, Foreign Economic Policy, and Foreign Commerce Policy — they are all really, three phases of the same thing...Today, there are no two ministers who work more closely with each other than the commerce minister and the foreign minister».
«The result of this, you can see in our exports. It is not just as if our exports are at the highest ever,» he added.
The union minister further emphasized that a lot of credit for India's highest-ever export level goes to the Commerce Ministry and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal.
«I am into my fifth decade into government, but for the first time, I have seen a foreign minister and commerce minister, and the Prime Minister himself actually address all our commercial representatives abroad, all our ambassadors abroad to promote, our exports.
