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India-Belgium Relations
Belgium's prime minister spent three days in India in September 2026, turning a relationship long built on diamonds and war memory into a working agenda on defence, trade, clean energy, semiconductors and skilled migration.
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India will post a defence attache in Brussels, matching Belgium's officer in New Delhi; the External Affairs Ministry put two-way trade at about US$ 13 billion behind the five-year doubling goal, set out a three-Ts frame of Trade, Technology and Talent, and added civil-aviation talks and a shared position on Ukraine.
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