Anand Sharma urges India to strengthen commercial ties with emerging economies

18 Sep 2012 Evaluate

In an attempt to boost India’s growth further, Union Commerce Minister Anand Sharma, at the end of the three-day conference of India's Heads of Foreign Missions, urged for enhancing  trading activities with emerging countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America and embracing the globe through sound trade and investment linkages that are mutually beneficial. The conference was attended by President of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Dr Karan Singh, Commerce, Industry and Textile Minister Anand Sharma and Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan.

Sharma pointed out that the centre’s aggressive measures to curtail burden of current account deficits and trade deficits and the changes in norms that are being planned, would boost much needed foreign investments into the country as the implementation of policies will provide positive impacts on the macroeconomic conditions of the country. He also figured the significance to further strengthen the historical trading ties of India with Africa, which is emerging as a commercial destination.

The president of ICCR, Karan Singh emphasized the importance of projecting India’s soft power and noted that culture, politics and economy are the three facts of the nation’s diplomatic engagement with the outside world. Commenting over the challenges in the field of environmental diplomacy and climate change negotiations, Jayanthi Natarajan, the Environment and Forest Minister pointed out that the nation’s top priority should remain as growth and development.

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