India to achieve $100-billion trade with Russia well before 2030 target: Jaishankar
Hindustan TimesIndia is confident of achieving commerce worth $100 billion with Russia before the target date of 2030 though the two sides need to address constraints to ensure trade is more balanced, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Tuesday. The two sides have seen “perceptible progress” in tackling challenges to trade, especially issues related to payments and logistics, but there is “still some work to be done”, Jaishankar said while co-chairing a meeting of the main body that oversees bilateral trade and technical cooperation with Russia’s first deputy prime minister Denis Manturov. India is confident about achieving this trade target well before 2030, Jaishankar said in his opening remarks at the meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technical and Cultural Cooperation as the two economies are complementary and benefit from “trust and confidence built over many years”. The external affairs ministry said in a statement that Jaishankar and Manturov directed 14 working groups and six sub-groups under the IGC-TEC to speedily finalise the programme for economic cooperation till 2030 and to take steps to enhance market access to achieve the trade target of $100 billion.