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Edwin Paul: India Business Council Chair on Narendra Modi's visit to New Zealand · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Now to the twenty billion dollar question. With this trade deal, New.
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  Speaker 2: Zealand has committed to invest twenty billion dollars in India
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  Speaker 2: over the next fifteen years. To commit to promote investment
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  Speaker 2: into India from New Zealand.
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  Speaker 1: It's got to Edwin Paul India Business Council Chair Edwin,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, good morning right now, excellent result. Everyone loves
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  Speaker 1: the FTA apart from Winston. But this question of promote
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  Speaker 1: or invest, Now you heard the translation from Nerandromodi. There
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  Speaker 1: was that accurate? Or is he saying that? Is he
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  Speaker 1: purposely removing the word promote im not.
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  Speaker 3: Don't want to get into that. Actually, I mean that's
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  Speaker 3: for the government to nuance the wording, and it's agreed
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  Speaker 3: between both the leaders. Both the leaders have gone public
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  Speaker 3: and made those statements. So it really does not make
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  Speaker 3: it an on the business community. We are focusing on
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  Speaker 3: the outcomes and we've recently had the strategic partnership announced.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't want to get into what the media
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  Speaker 3: interprets between what each one says. I to an agreement
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  Speaker 3: that trained.
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  Speaker 4: I can understand that. The problem we've got now is
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  Speaker 4: we've we've got an FGA that's signed we've got and
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  Speaker 4: we've got our opposition party here in New Zealand with
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  Speaker 4: Chris Hipkins saying to businesses here, go into this with
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  Speaker 4: your eyes wide open. In other words, tread carefully because
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  Speaker 4: it could all be called back on this one clause
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  Speaker 4: that they're both speaking at different ends.
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  Speaker 1: On the left end doesn't seem to know what the
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  Speaker 1: right hand was saying. So, I mean, I appreciate what
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  Speaker 1: you're saying, but it kind of is important, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's important, and that's why I think the Strategic
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  Speaker 2: Partnership is a clear, measurable roadmap and it's got ten
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  Speaker 2: agreements with eighteen defined outcomes, and it's sort of for
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  Speaker 2: year period and I think will no sooner than later
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  Speaker 2: as to what it is. And it's quite aspirational. And
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  Speaker 2: I think the announcement of the roadmap on how that
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  Speaker 2: can be achieved and measured over the four years is
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  Speaker 2: the kind of the confidence that we're getting from the
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  Speaker 2: from the government.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, fair enough. When was it cool to see the
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister here over the weekend?
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  Speaker 3: I think so he's a rock star.
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  Speaker 1: He certainly had a big modicaide.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's he's like a celebrity wherever he goes,
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  Speaker 3: and I think he deserves the I mean, the clouds
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  Speaker 3: love him right. So people may hate him for different reasons,
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  Speaker 3: but what we see is like to fill a stadium
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  Speaker 3: of that size and also not just an Auckland wherever
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  Speaker 3: he goes, and I mean that's the kind of a
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  Speaker 3: stone he's getting. And he's the longest serving prime minister
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  Speaker 3: of India, I mean, in the largest democracy. So people
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  Speaker 3: do love him and it was good to see that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in real life.
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  Speaker 1: Good to have you on the show. It was always
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