Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi and the two leaders “agreed to meet very soon”. The officers provided this information.
“At the end of this conversation, the two leaders agreed to meet very soon,” the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said in a social media post, sharing details of the telephone conversation between Netanyahu and Modi.
Tourism Minister Haim Katz, Economy and Industry Minister Nir Barkat, Agriculture and Food Security Minister Avi Dichter, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich visited India earlier this year to accelerate the process of signing a free trade agreement (FTA) by the strategic partners.
The two countries signed a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) during Smotrich’s visit and then the Terms of Reference (ToR) for the FTA were signed during Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal’s visit to Israel last month.
Informed sources in Israel recently dismissed reports that Netanyahu had postponed his visit to India due to security concerns in the wake of the Delhi blasts.
Expressing ‘full confidence’ in India’s security apparatus, Israel had said that both sides are working on the dates of Netanyahu’s visit.
