Foreign Ministers of India and Israel discuss ways to strengthen strategic ties

 

Jerusalem:  Israel’s newly-appointed Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar on Thursday in a telephonic call spoke about ways to strengthen bilateral ties, including ways to promote Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and projects in the field of innovation, food and water security.

Jaishankar congratulated Cohen on his assumption of office, a press release from the Israeli foreign ministry said.

“The ministers discussed the importance of relations between Israel and India, relations that are strategic partnership, and the ways to strengthen them through the promotion of a Free Trade Agreement between the (two) countries and projects in the field of innovation, food and water security,” it said.