Hyderabad: India's Green Partnership with Denmark is 'very very unique,' which will be of enormous help for the country which wants to grow back greener, said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, in a statement, which followed his meeting with Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod and top honchos.
Jaishankar co-chaired the 4th India-Denmark Joint Commission Meeting which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark on Sep 4, 2021.
Jaishankar said,"Our relationship with Denmark is that Denmark is the only country with which we have a green strategic partnership. And the way we look at it, you know, everybody says build back better, but we also want to grow back greener. And in growing back greener, we think Denmark is a very very unique partner, because you have strengths and experiences and best practices which are enormously helpful for a country like India at this stage of its development."
Referring to the meeting as an 'opportunity' for both the countries to review the world, Jaishankar observed that it helped go into the bilateral relations besides poring into the 'big issues' of the day.
As regards to the Joint Commission, the External Affairs Minister noted that they had 10 working groups in the Commission and another one on Health was added on Saturday.
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The minister met CEOs of very important businesses who are in India, which he termed as 'satisfying'. He also met representatives of various companies including Grundfos, Vestss, Maersk, Haldor, Topsoe and CIP, as well as the major chambers including DIDE, Danish shipping and Agriculture & Food Council, among others.
"We have 200 Danish companies operating in India. We have a growing number of Indian companies today here. We also discussed how apart from our own bilateral cooperation, how we could carry forward, our larger trade investment agreements with the European Union and which we have, I believe have Denmark's support. We have also discussed the Covid situation. How we have each coped with it. What are the lessons and what are the challenges posed by Covid in terms of travel and mobility, Jaishankar said, and added, "Because, in this globalized world, we have tourists, we have students, we have seafarers, we have aircrews and we have to find some way by which their life and their professions are made better than they have been for the last year".
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