Mangalore, July 28: Zionist representative and Consul General of Israel Orna Sagiv will be visiting coastal city of Mangalore in the month-end.
She is expected to deliver talk on '20 years of Indo-Israel diplomatic relations’ at Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry Exim Facilitation Centre here on July 31.
After decades of non-aligned and pro-Arab policy, India formally had established relations with Israel in January 1992 and ties between the two nations have flourished since, primarily due to common strategic interests and security threats.
On a diplomatic level, both the countries have managed to maintain healthy relations despite India's repeated strong condemnations of Israeli military actions in Palestinian territories, which are believed by analysts to be motivated by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government's desire for Muslim votes in India.
Moreover, India is the largest customer of Israeli military equipment and Israel is the second-largest military partner of India after the Russian Federation. As of 2009, the military business between the two nations is worth around US$9 billion. Military and strategic ties between the two nations extend to joint military training and space technology. India is Israel's largest defense market, accounting for almost fifty percent of Israeli sales.
India is also the second-largest Asian economic partner of Israel. In 2010, bilateral trade, excluding military sales, stood at US$4.7 billion.
Currently, the two nations are negotiating an extensive bilateral free trade pact, focusing on areas such as information technology, biotechnology and agriculture.
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They should work together to promote agriculture technologies, High Tech and anti terrorism, and to make life better to all their people, be they Jews, Hindus or Muslims.
Both countries are doing their best to promote peace, but are surrounded by fundamentalist terror organizations, supported by Pakistan and Iran.
Long live India-Israel friendship.
India is the biggest customer of their Military business just because they pay enough goose and provoke Inida against our neighbouring countries for their own business and we people spend all our Economy on our Borders than helping the poor in India.
should wake up....! India is not Palestine........
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