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The Ministry External Affairs (MEA) said connected Wednesday (November 26, 2025) that a scope of meetings took spot during the “successful and productive” sojourn of Afghan Minister of Industry and Commerce Alhaj Nooruddin Azizi to India, which saw “very bully outcomes”.
When asked astir the assignment of an Indian envoy successful Afghanistan, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that New Delhi was looking into the functions and requirements of it.
Mr. Azizi visited India on with a commercialized delegation from November 19-25.
A “range of meetings” took spot during his sojourn to India, which saw “very bully outcomes”, helium told reporters astatine his play media briefing successful New Delhi.
The MEA spokesperson said the sojourn was a precise “successful 1 and productive one”.
A time earlier the MEA said his sojourn reflected the “strong commitment” of some sides to deepening bilateral engagement and practice successful trade, system and investments.
“India remains committed to moving intimately with Afghanistan to beforehand this economical concern successful a mode that brings sustainable benefits to the radical of some countries,” the MEA said.
During the visit, Mr. Azizi met External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar. Both the Ministers discussed bilateral ties, connectivity and radical to radical exchanges.
The Afghan Minister besides held delegation-level talks with the Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal. They discussed a wide scope of issues, including commercialized facilitation, marketplace access, connectivity and capacity-building.
“They announced the initiation of the aerial freight corridor connected the Kabul-Delhi and Kabul-Amritsar sectors. Both ministers welcomed the reactivation of the Joint Working Group connected Trade, Commerce and Investment, and agreed to research opportunities for collaboration successful mining and different high-value sectors,” it said.
India and Afghanistan volition depute commercialized representatives astatine their respective embassies and volition institutionalise a associated enclosure of commerce and industry, the MEA said.
The Afghan Minister besides met Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jitin Prasada during his visit, Mr. Jaiswal said.
Mr. Azizi besides visited the ongoing India International Trade Fair (IITF), wherever respective Afghan traders person acceptable up stalls. He interacted with assorted exhibitors and toured the taste show astatine the commercialized fair, helium said.
His delegation held meetings with the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council (TEXPROCIL), Cotton Corporation of India (CCI), Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC), Manmade and Technical Textiles Export Promotion Council (MATEXIL), PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI), Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM), and Pharmaceutical Export Promotion Council of India (PHARMEXCIL).
They discussed modalities for the semipermanent proviso of cultivation products, medicines and different indispensable commodities to Afghanistan, the MEA said connected Tuesday (November 25, 2025).
Interacting with reporters astatine the Afghan Embassy successful New Delhi connected Monday (November 24, 2025), Mr. Azizi said a commercialized attache from Afghanistan is expected to get successful India successful a month’s time, and asserted that Kabul wants to boost bilateral commercialized to “much more” than $1 billion.
Mr. Azizi said determination is imaginable and beardown volition from some sides erstwhile it comes to backstage investment.
He besides said that during his visit, respective issues similar visas, some for commerce and aesculapian purposes, aerial and onshore corridors for commercialized transit, and the Chabahar larboard were discussed.
