Seeking to strengthen bilateral trade and investment, foreign minister Sushma Swaraj and visiting Russian deputy PM Dmitry Rogozin took stock of economic ties between the two countries.
The two leaders co-chaired a meeting of the India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation (IRIGC-TEC).
Apart from raising the level of the Joint Working Group on trade and economic cooperation to that of deputy minister/commerce secretary level and creating a mechanism to discuss and remove barriers to trade, if any, the two sides also created working groups to boost ties in agriculture and pharmaceuticals.
The two sides also decided to expedite implementation of the Green Corridor for exchange of pre-arrival data between the customs administrations of the two countries.