Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar met his Iceland counterpart Bjarni Benediktsson after signing the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in New Delhi on Sunday.
India signed a free trade agreement with the four-nation EFTA in the presence of Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday.
The delegation that signed the deal included Guy Parmelin, Swiss Federal Councillor and Head of the Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research; Bjarni Benediktsson, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iceland; Dominique Hasler, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Liechtenstein; and Jan Christian Vestre, Minister of Trade and Industry of Norway.
Piyush Goyal called the signing a “momentous occasion” and said it marks the “culmination of nearly 15 years of hard work, tremendous energy, and effort”.
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