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Ansari calls for enhanced India, Africa cooperation
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Vice President M. Hamid Ansari addressing the media on board, Air India One Special Aircraft on returning from Uganda on February 23, 2017. |
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Rituparna Kakati | 25 Feb, 2017
India's Vice President M. Hamid Ansari on Friday called for greater cooperation between India and Africa, stressing on mutual benefits it can result in for both sides.
Addressing the Media Onboard Air India One aircraft while returning from a 5-day visit to Rwanda and Uganda, Ansari said that the sheer size of Africa with 54 countries and one billion people, create enormous chances of cooperation and of sharing our experience and skills which are useful to them.
"Africa also has enormous resources which can be useful as India's development requirements come up," he added.
He said that the level of discussions in India and Uganda were extremely warm and cordial, adding that his meetings went beyond pro-forma. "The meeting with the President of Uganda was substantive and productive and reinforced our long standing ties," he said.
India's approach, as long standing friends, has been to give its African partners assistance in their developmental programmes in those areas where they want and it is them to convert that into specific requests, he said.
He further added that the broader issues of India's approach to cooperation with African Countries are well known and well appreciated. One issue of concern to both diamond and Africa is scourge of terrorism and there was a total meeting of minds in condemning terrorism in all shapes and forms, he added.
Reacting to a question on trade imbalance, the Vice President said that there was trade imbalance with Uganda as India exports a lot of things to them and their export basket to India was presently limited.
He further said that there are two ways to address this; one by increasing the products in their export basket and two; instead of exporting finished goods from India to Uganda, some Indian manufacturers could set up their manufacturing units in Uganda.
Responding to a question on Parliamentary cooperation with both countries, the Vice President said that there is a need for having more Parliamentary interactions. He further said that a Parliamentary visit from Rwanda and Uganda will expose them to what is happening in India and witness our developmental programmes.
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