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Indian Cabinet okays India-Palestine MoU on agriculture cooperation

The Dollar Business Bureau The Indian Cabinet has given its approval to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare and the Ministry of Agriculture in the State of Palestine on agriculture cooperation. This was signed in May 2017, when Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs had visited the country. What could seem to be an innocuous agreement, one should also look at the extra efforts on the part of the Indian government to balance its ties with Israel, Palestine, Iran and the West Asian countries. The MoU provides for cooperation in the fields of agricultural research; veterinary field including capacity enhancement of Palestinian Veterinary services and Animal Health; irrigation and climate change. It will also be extended to areas ...

American Lawmakers to help India join APEC

Matt Salmon, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific said, Membership in APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) would provide India a constructive forum to glean insight from other Asian countries that have already taken significant steps to advance their economies." The Dollar Business Bureau Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), is a forum of 21 economies set up with a view to promote free trade throughout the Asia- Pacific region   To help India join the APEC forum, the US legislators sympathetic to India have initiated a legislation in the US congress. The thought behind this was an economically progressive India would benefit the strategic goal of US in Asia. Matt Salmon, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific ...