India-ASEAN summit to boost cooperation

As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reaches Kuala Lumpur tomorrow afternoon to attend the India-ASEAN Summit, the fourth since the annual event started in 2002, the two sides are going to bring to the table several new proposals for giving a filip to an already existing multi-faceted cooperation.

After the Free Trade Agreement starts getting operational from January 2007, this figure is bound to get a quantum leap. However, India and ASEAN have agreed not to implement the Early Harvest Programme because there had been no agreement on the rules of origin. As a result, the two sides would move on straight to the main FTA.

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