The second Business Forum India – Serbia has been held in Belgrade, organised by the Embassy of India to Serbia as a preparatory meeting ahead of the third session of the Joint Economic Committee of India and Serbia, to be held in New Delhi soon.
The host of the forum was H.E. Narinder Chauhan, Ambassador of India to Serbia, who noted that Serbia and India have excellent political relations, but that there could be more cooperation in the economy and trade exchange.
Acting Director of the Development Agency of Serbia, Željko Sertić, said that he expects an increase in the trade exchange between the two countries, which currently totals about $142 million, while State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nemanja Stevanović, reminded participants that the prime ministers of Serbia and India had set as a goal of trade between the two countries reaching a billion dollars annually in the coming years.