Hailing ties with India, the Italian Ambassador to India Vincenzo de Luca highlighted the fact that the two countries are in a very important period of relationship which will go even further.

"We have been in a very -very important period of our relationship in terms of political, cultural and economic and in the creative industry. We will go even further. The relationship between Italy and India is based on solid partnership and we will have more and more projects between Italy and India", said the Italian envoy in New Delhi.

"We reached the top record of bilateral trade last year with more than 10 billion euro of bilateral trade and this year, we have 50 per cent more compared to the last year in 2021. Now we are number 3 in Europe in terms of bilateral trade with India" he added.