“India-EU relationship growing and developing in positive direction”: Latvian Foreign Minister

New Delhi [India], February 22 (ANI): At the sidelines of the Raisina Dialogue, Latvian Foreign Minister Krisjanis Karins on Thursday said that relations between India and Latvia as well as the European Union were progressing in a positive direction.

While speaking to ANI, says, “The diplomatic relations with India and Latvia are actually very good. And the relationship between the European Union and India is also growing and developing in a very positive direction.”

The Latvian foreign minister also said that he saw a role for India in addressing conflicts like the one in Ukraine.

“While the threat level is going up, we are seeing more and more disturbances to the international order. The basic values that we live by in Europe and India are democracy and the rule of law. And the democracies need to work together to stabilise as a counterweight to the unrest,” he remarked.

“India has a very big role to play. In the Indo-Pacific, India is the big power. As a big democracy here in the Indo-Pacific, Europe and India must work together to coordinate and find more areas of cooperation because the world needs stability based on basic values and on the UN charter of international law. In this part of the world, India has a huge, huge role to play” he added.

Earlier Krisjanis Karins, delivered an address to the special Ministerial Panel of the CII India Europe Business and Sustainability Conclave, calling on India’s businesses to develop cooperation with Latvia, notably in digital technologies, innovations and the space sector. The Foreign Minister highlighted Latvia’s open business environment and focus on innovation.

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