Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set a very ambitious desire to get the India-U.K. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed by Deepavali and his new British counterpart Liz Truss wants her administration to "match the pace and ambition" of the Indian leader, U.K. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has said.
Mr. Cleverly also said that the bilateral relationship between India and the U.K. is longstanding and wide-ranging, which is both a "huge plus" but it also means that "quite understandably there is a desire to have a very, very wide-ranging, meaningful free trade agreement."
"Obviously, Prime Minister Modi has set a very ambitious desire to get a free trade agreement signed by Diwali. Now, that means that both us and Indian negotiators are going to have to work very, very hard but we are very willing to do so," Mr. Cleverly told PTI in an interview in New York, on September 21 on the margins of the high-level UN General Assembly session.
