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Source: AFP
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Argentine President Javier Milei successful Buenos Aires connected Saturday, urging the enlargement of New Delhi's preferential commercialized woody with South America's Mercosur bloc.
The bilateral talks with Milei are the latest successful Modi's whistle-stop diplomatic circuit culminating successful the acme of BRICS emerging economies starting connected Sunday successful Brazil.
Diplomats from some countries astatine the meeting, which included a lunch, decided to "deepen bilateral relations and commercialized ties," according to a connection from the Argentine presidency.
Indian overseas ministry diplomat Periasamy Kumaran told reporters Modi "requested Argentina's enactment successful expanding the India-Mercosur preferential commercialized agreement."
The Mercosur determination commercialized bloc, comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia, is seeking person ties with Asian economies successful the look of Trump's planetary commercialized war.
"The 2 leaders discussed the necessity of diversifying and expanding bilateral trade" successful sectors including defence, technology and health, said Kumaran.
They besides touched upon practice successful the energy sector, including state and petrol, arsenic good arsenic lithium, a cardinal mineral for the cleanable vigor transition. Argentina is the world's 5th largest shaper of lithium, according to the US Geological Survey.
"Excellent gathering with President Javier Milei of Argentina," Modi wrote connected X of the leaders' 2nd bilateral talks.
"We person covered important crushed successful our bilateral relations, but we hold that the travel up is adjacent much promising!"
India was Argentina's 5th largest trading spouse successful 2024, with bilateral commercialized up 33 percent, according to figures from the Indian outer affairs ministry.
Source: AFP
