1362 External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar with Mauritius President Prithvirajsing Roopun during a meeting in Port Louis on Monday. PTI
Tribune News Service
NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 22
India and Mauritius today signed a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement (CECPA) and a $100 million defence line of credit. India will also gift a Dornier aircraft and an Advanced Light Helicopter Dhruv to Mauritius for two years to help shore up its maritime patrolling and monitoring capabilities.
“These initiatives once again underline that the security of Mauritius is the security of India; in the prosperity of Mauritius is our prosperity,” said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in Port Louis on the second leg of his two-nation visit.
NEW DELHI: India signed a free trade and investment agreement with Mauritius on Tuesday, the first with any country in Africa. It was also the first time since 2011 that India was signing a free trade pact with any country.
Announcing this in Port Louis, foreign minister S Jaishankar said the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement (CECPA) “will provide a timely boost for the revival of our post-Covid economies and also enable Indian investors to use Mauritius as a launch-pad for business expansion into continental Africa helping the prospect of Mauritius emerging as a ‘hub of Africa’.” In his first visit there as foreign minister, Jaishankar also handed over another 1,00,000 doses of Covid vaccines to Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth. India had earlier flown over 1,00,000 doses in January.
India and Mauritius have signed a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement CECPA that provides an institutional mechanism to encourage and improve trade between the two countries
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