<h1>Bilateral economic engagement relaunched to boost investment, joint ventures and sectoral cooperation across hydrocarbons and SMEs.</h1> The 17th Joint Economic Committee protocol relaunched bilateral economic engagement, prioritising investments, joint ventures and trade expansion across metallurgy and energy equipment, transport and infrastructure, IT and ITES, technical textiles and tourism. Sectoral working groups committed to hydrocarbons cooperation-covering upstream and downstream collaboration, training, R&D, equipment supply and potential joint exploration-and SME cooperation focused on information sharing, institutional links, business delegations, technology transfer and investment facilitation.