LUCKNOW: Italian Embassy’s trade commissioner Alessandro Liberatori on Saturday said that the decades-old economic relations between Uttar Pradesh and Italy will not only deepen but will go forward at the speed of a bullet train.
Citing the similarity in trade synergy between Uttar Pradesh and Italy, he said that there were unlimited possibilities of trade between the two. “Italy will play its role in the field of technology, infrastructure, leather, textile, drugs and chemicals in UP,” he said.
“In the next few years, we will give our full cooperation in promoting smart city, mobility, smart grid (electricity distribution and storage solution), gas transportation and natural gas,” Liberatori said.
Meanwhile, during an interaction with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday, a delegation of the European Investment Bank, led by its vice-president and former Belgian Prime Minister Kris Peeters, assured him that they would invest in various infrastructure projects in UP.
Peeters spoke about the bank’s investment in the Metro Rail project in UP and said that the bank was also considering providing further cooperation to the state in the field of various infrastructure projects like RRTS in Meerut, electric vehicles charging and aviation.