Association Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman met Mr. Tony Abbott, Special Emissary of Australian Prime Minister here today and had conversations on different issues of common interest.
Mr. Abbott commended India for undertaking thorough and supported changes program and said that India has kept on showing hearty development notwithstanding the problematic effect of the pandemic. Mr. Abbott underlined that Australia sees India as a long-standing, esteemed and confided in accomplice.
Money Minister Smt. Sitharaman liked the dependable advancement saw in monetary and business relations between the two nations over the previous decade including height of the India-Australia respective relationship into a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. The Finance Minister additionally underlined that the complementarities between the two nations give enormous degree to expanding the financial connections.
Smt. Sitharaman further featured those new financial changes and facilitating of FDI standards in India give openings for Australian financial backers. The Australian Superannuation reserves have put resources into National Speculation and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) and have been welcome to take a gander at different freedoms to put resources into Indian foundation.
The Finance Minister offered that a group from Australia could draw in with the Indian side to better investigate the roads for interest in National Infrastructure Pipeline projects.
Australia is a significant respective accomplice of India with solid liberal popular governments, shared diaspora, exchange and speculation. The reciprocal exchange has been developing consistently since past decade and there exists monstrous potential for the two nations to improve it further considering the wide range of complementarities and qualities in the post-COVID period. (Source)