Muscat/New Delhi, Dec. 17 -- Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal has confirmed that India and Oman will be signing a Free Trade Agreement on Thursday (December 18) in Muscat, describing the agreement as a historical milestone in the bilateral relations.
Minister Goyal and his Omani counterpart Qais bin Mohammed Al Yousef will be inking the FTA Agreement in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sultan Haitham bin Tarik in Muscat tomorrow. PM Modi has arrived in Muscat on a two-day visit.
Addressing an India-Oman business meet in Muscat today, Minister Piyush Goyal said that it will be the first FTA to be signed by Oman with any country in nearly 20 years and added that it would open up wide ranging opportunities across s...