With regard to food security, Argentina has been able to
achieve agricultural development in fi elds like machinery,
molecular biology, and genetic engineering, in order to
generate effi cient integration in global value chains. Agri
technology is also one of our major developments, and we
are willing to share it with India and all its farmers. In this
regard, cooperation in the areas of increased productivity
and post-harvest management (particularly storage) also
off er an opportunity for both countries to work together
as partners.
In the fi eld of energy, we believe that non-conventional
resources located at “Vaca Muerta” will be key in the near
future for India´s energy security. Also, in Argentina, there
are great investment opportunities for copper and lithium,
and we are ready to provide these strategic assets to India.
I would also like to emphasize that Argentina also
off ers possibilities of cooperation in highly advanced and
technological areas, such as peaceful uses of nuclear energy
and outer-space. The company INVAP is currently working
on a radioisotope plant in Mumbai, for example. Argentina
has also developed and built state of the art radars for airspace
control. We are willing to share all these technologies and
developments with India, working together according to its
own needs and requirements.
I fi rmly believe that we need better strategic ties and a
deeper involvement of India not only in our country but also
in all Latin America.
Towards 70
Next year will mark a special occasion: we will be
celebrating 70 years of bilateral relations and friendship
between Argentina and India. The world sets us great
challenges, but also a great opportunity. We must use this
opportunity to set the stage for the future of our bilateral
relationship, and also look back to consolidate all that has
been achieved. We are getting ready to celebrate with India
and its people this great occasion.
I would like to express my best wishes for our common
future, which I am sure will fi nd us together seeking the
welfare of our people.
Daniel Chuburu,
Ambassador of Argentina to India
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The need for a strategic dialogue
The world that we are facing is setting unprecedented
challenges for developing countries like Argentina and
India. Protectionism (exercised by many actors and in many
diff erent manners), tensions in the fi eld of trade and resort to
unilateral measures are creating risks for multilateralism and
the rules-based international order. Geopolitical rivalries and
instability in many parts of the world, due to socio-economic
tensions or the lack of a fair distribution of the goods produced
by free trade and globalization also has the potential to
threaten peace and stability. And we shall not forget the
unique challenge that climate change represents for all of us.
This is the world in which development strategies are to
be managed. As Argentina and India both embrace the same
values of democracy, pluralism, and tolerance and believe
in development as the key to a better future, we must move
through this path together, as partners. This is why it is our
goal to strengthen our bilateral ties and take them a step
further, achieving a Strategic Dialogue based on mutually
benefi cial cooperation. Two areas must be the key focus of
this partnership: food and energy security. We are fully aware
that these are two main goals for India. Argentina wants to
partner India in this strategic sense in order to help is achieve
its two main goals.
This strategic dialogue must be achieved through high
added value in the fields of agro-technology and food
security, mining, science, energy security, peaceful uses of
nuclear energy and of outer space, defense and security, and
including off course cultural exchanges and education. In an
uncertain, rapidly changing and complex world, Argentina
and India must be strategic partners. We must deeply explore
the complementarities between our two countries, specially
within the fi elds of IT and agro-technology.
There is a great potential to strengthen the bilateral
commercial relationship with India not only in terms of trade
but also in terms of technical cooperation and investments.
This said we must be aware that the commercial relationship
has to be improved, and more investments of Indian
companies are needed. Argentina off ers a great opportunity
for these investments, with highly developed human resources
and a vast amount of natural resources.