KIEL, Germany, April 22 (Reuters) – Germany expects to soon sign an final agreement with India about a planned $8 billion submarine cooperation between the two countries, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius told reporters on Wednesday.
“I am very, very confident that I will be able to sign it soon,” Pistorius said, adding he expected a signing within the next three months.
The planned deal has been in the making for months and is speaheaded by German warship maker TKMS and India’s Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders.
(Reporting by Fabian Bimmer and Christoph Steitz; Editing by Alex Richardson)
