New Delhi, Jan. 29 -- Norway's Ambassador to India, May-Elin Stener, has welcomed the India-European Union Free Trade Agreement (FTA), calling it a positive step for global trade and a strong complement to the existing India-EFTA Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA), of which Norway is a part.

In an interview, Ambassador Stener described the India-EU FTA as "a very good development", while noting that Norway is not a member of the EU.

"Norway strongly supports an open and rules-based world trade order, and in that sense we see this as a very positive step," she said. "We already have a Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement with India in the EFTA context, which entered into force in October last year. An EU-India agreement ...