India’s Minister of State for External Affairs, V Muraleedharan, addressed the 6th India-Arab Partnership Conference in New Delhi
The resident population of Indians in the Arab world has touched 9 million, according to India’s Minister of State for External Affairs, V Muraleedharan. He was speaking at the inaugural event of the 6th India-Arab Partnership Conference in New Delhi at the beginning of this week, reported arabianbusiness.com.
The conference is the outcome of a Memorandum of Cooperation signed between the Arab League and India in December 2008 and subsequently renewed periodically. The memorandum established an Arab Indian Cooperation Forum. The India-Arab Partnership Conference is held alternately in India and an Arab country. It is attended by ministers, senior officials and businesspersons from Arab states and India.
“India-Arab relations have withstood the test of time. Even during the recent pandemic and global geopolitical conflicts, trade between India and the Arab world continued to grow. The region caters to about 60 percent of India’s crude oil imports and more than 50 percent of fertilisers and related products, making our partnership robust and indispensable.”
— Muraleedharan
The theme of this year’s conference was “New Horizons in Investment, Trade and Services. Organised by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and the General Secretariat of the Arab League, it was partnered this year by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, the Federation of Arab Businessmen and the Union of Arab Chambers.
Muraleedharan said India-Arab relations “have withstood the test of time. Even during the recent pandemic and global geopolitical conflicts, trade between India and the Arab world continued to grow. The region caters to about 60 percent of India’s crude oil imports and more than 50 percent of fertilisers and related products, making our partnership robust and indispensable,” he said.
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