Goyal Discusses Economic Scope With Delegation

India and Belgium have decided to deepen their collaboration in defence, infrastructure and clean energy defence, commerce minister Piyush Goyal said ahead of the 10th India-EU free trade negotiations in Brussels from March 10-14.

- Rajeev Jayaswal

NEW DELHI: India and Belgium focused on ways to bolster cooperation in trade, investment, defence, semiconductors and digitalisation during a meeting between external affairs minister S Jaishankar and his Belgian counterpart Maxime Prevot on Monday.

Prevot is part of the Belgian Economic Mission led by Princess Astrid that is currently on a week-long visit to India to drum up trade and investments. The delegation includes representatives of close to 360 businesses from Belgium.

Jaishankar said on X that he and Prevot held comprehensive discussions on advancing bilateral cooperation in trade, investment, defence, semiconductors, digital, mobility, clean energy, and pharmaceuticals. "Highlighted new opportunities for 'Make in India, Design in India and Research in India'," he said.

The two sides also discussed ways to take forward cooperation at European Union and multilateral forums, as well as global and regional developments.