New Delhi, Sept. 3 -- External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar today said that India counts on Germany's support to deepen relations with the European union and expedite the FTA negotiations.

In his remarks during a bilateral with visiting German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, the EAM welcome the German FM who is on his first visit to India in his capacity as foreign minister, and noted that it was taking place a few monthsafter his own visit to Berlin, adding "which I think is a statement in itself".

"As you noted before your departure from Germany, we are marking 25 years of strategic partnership, 50 years of scientific cooperation, almost 60 years of cultural agreements, and as you saw in Bengaluru almost a century of business interac...