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Speaker 1: The Prime Minister's just announced he's off to India. He's

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Speaker 1: going on Saturday and he's going to meet Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: no Endra Modi. He's taking the largest delegation our Prime

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Speaker 1: minister has ever traveled with. This is the first visit

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Speaker 1: since John Key went there in twenty sixteen. I think

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Speaker 1: this is the third visit that we've had a crack

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Speaker 1: at this. So Barrat Tala is the chair of the

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Speaker 1: India New Zealand Business Council. He joins me, Now, hell

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Speaker 1: about it?

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Speaker 2: Hey, Hell, are you very good?

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Speaker 1: Why is this trip so significant?

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Speaker 2: I think if you want something done with India, this

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Speaker 2: would be a strong foundation taking ahead any discussion, any

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Speaker 2: negotiation with India.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So look, only one point five percent of New

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Speaker 1: Zealand exports go to India. India's on track to be

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Speaker 1: the third largest economy in the world by twenty thirteen.

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Speaker 1: Why have we been neglecting this market for so long?

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Speaker 2: I think this question has to be asked from a

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Speaker 2: lot of ministry and political diplomats. It has not neglected,

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Speaker 2: it's just the timing was not there. I feel that

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Speaker 2: the government with a lot less after twenty sixteen, and

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Speaker 2: that has made us into a kind of a back seat.

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Speaker 2: But last twelve months with the current government and the

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Speaker 2: minister is going left right center, which is kind of

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Speaker 2: bringing the things on track. So we can say that

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Speaker 2: we are late, but we are not too late. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So what do we have to do in this trip

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Speaker 1: to make sure that our relationship is closer that we

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Speaker 1: can increase our terms of trade.

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Speaker 2: I think one thing which we can say or we

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Speaker 2: can kind of positive say that the meeting with Minister

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister Modey is kind of a big win, which

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Speaker 2: we were as a MCBC asking from last a few years.

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Speaker 2: Now getting to a with a bigger delegation show that

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Speaker 2: we are in a relationship mode. We are not only

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Speaker 2: in the transitional mode. So this trip kind of gives

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Speaker 2: a very good message to Indian government and the private

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Speaker 2: companies in India that museum is open for business and

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Speaker 2: we should be looked into.

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Speaker 1: What do you think India wants from us? I mean,

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Speaker 1: what do we make that they would want?

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Speaker 2: I think the biggest thing India is looking currently is

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Speaker 2: investment in India. At the same time bringing technology in

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Speaker 2: India and kind of bringing what they see that helped

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Speaker 2: to grow India. So currently in every negotiation and every

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Speaker 2: deal which India is doing, they've been always putting that

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Speaker 2: how India can grow together with you and that will

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Speaker 2: help us to grow or grow the other side of

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Speaker 2: the business too. So what we can do is we

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Speaker 2: take the investments. We talk about the technology transfers. There's

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Speaker 2: a lot, a lot needs and can give to India.

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Speaker 1: Is a nuclear free stance a problem because India has

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Speaker 1: ambitions for their place in the world militarily, they're already

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Speaker 1: a nuclear power. Is our stance, our nuclear energy and power?

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Speaker 1: Is there a problem when we talk to the Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister of India.

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Speaker 2: I think I don't see that is kind of an

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Speaker 2: issue with Newism only because see like every country had

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Speaker 2: their own chance and to be honest news and should

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Speaker 2: say be what we want to do. But in a

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Speaker 2: couple of things, India also don't want any anything which

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Speaker 2: is from a news in perspective that they want needs

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Speaker 2: them to support on everything. But again at the trade

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Speaker 2: is one area we talk about. I said, a nuclear

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Speaker 2: diplomacy is separate area to work in. There's always kind

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Speaker 2: of a common area to start it. And we are

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Speaker 2: not too in that discussion of a kind of nuclear diplomacy.

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Speaker 2: Yet I can say that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so how confident are you of success?

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Speaker 2: Finally, I think I think from I we are. We

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Speaker 2: are a lot positive, a lot optimistic. Now a lot

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Speaker 2: have been done by a lot of companies from New

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Speaker 2: Zealand to India or in India in the last twenty

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Speaker 2: four months to make this happen. So this is a

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Speaker 2: perfect opportunity and a perfect I say that tailwind for

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Speaker 2: New Zealand to get something from India.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely about a child. I thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: your turn here as the chair of the India and

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