Africa-Press – Angola. The turnover between Angola and India was around 1.9 trillion kwanzas (US$4.5 billion) in 2021, said this Tuesday, in Luanda, the Indian ambassador to the country, Pratibha Parkar.
The diplomat was speaking to journalists, regarding the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the independence of India, marked on the 15th of this month.
According to the diplomat, trade between Angola and India is limited to oil.
According to Pratibha Parkar, India is Angola’s third largest trading partner, sharing around 10 percent of the African country’s foreign trade.
He informed that, currently, the governments of both countries are moving forward with a vision of commercial diversification, which has been driven by the oil partnership for a long time.
“Angola and India have consistently agreed that there is a lot of potential to go deeper” in several areas, such as Agriculture, Health, Defence, Telecommunications, Infrastructure, Digitization, Food, among others.
He exemplified that, in the field of Education, his Government has annually made available to Angolan students more than 30 scholarships for the best universities in India.
On the other hand, he highlighted the good relations between the two countries, seeing each other as brothers, with a high trajectory that is strengthened on the basis of trust and mutual respect.
Both countries, he concluded, share friendly relations dating back to pre-independence times, when India supported Angola in its struggle for freedom.
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