Europe is looking to reduce tariffs on India and expand bilateral trade, Finland's Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen has said, ruling out secondary tariffs on New Delhi for purchasing Russian energy despite Washington's repeated requests.

"Now, what we look forward to doing with India is increasing our trade. And that would mean that rather than setting up new tariffs, we would rather like to reduce them and see the FTA negotiations proceed in good faith and as soon as possible," Valtonen said in an interview with Hindustan Times on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Advertisement

"But having said this, of course, we hope that also from the geostrategic perspective, India would align itself a little bit also closer to the foreign policy that the European Union is actively engaged

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