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India, Italy Sign Migration Agreement For Movement Of Students, Workers, Professionals

Jaishankar is here on the last leg of his four-day ꦬvisit to Portugal and Italy. 

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar
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India and Italy signed the Mobility and Migration Partnership Agreementও to enable seamless movement of workers, students and professionals after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held a comprehensive and productive meeting with his counterpart Antonio Tajani.

Jai🤡shankar is in Italy on the last leg of his four-day visi🤪t to Portugal and Italy.

"A comprehensive and productive meeting this evening with DPM &a🔥mp; FM @Antonio_Tajani," Jaishankar posted on Twitter after the mee𒁃ting.

"Conversed about deepening our strategic partnership. Agreed that potential in agro-tech, innovation, space, defence ꧋and the digital domaꦡin should be explored," he wrote on X.

The two leaders spoke about the We♚st Asia situation, the Ukraine conflict and the Indo-Pacific landscape in detail.

"Appreciated Ital⛄y’s support for our initiatives and also for the G20 Presidency,🐼" Jaishankar said.

"Signed the Mobility and Migration Partnership Agreement and the Cultural Exchange Programme at the end of our talks🤡,&quಞot; he added.

The Indian community in Italy estimated at 180,000 is the third largest community of Ind﷽ians in Europe after the UK and the Netherlands. As first-generation migrants, the majority of them are engaged in economic sectors such as agriculture,dairy farming, the leather induꦯstry, construction works and the service industry.

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