India, GCC to ink free trade agreement within a year: CII

"We have to manage all six GCC countries and that is the problem. Within a year, it should come through. If the (free trade) negotiation was with one country, it would have been much easier.

"We have to manage all six GCC countries and that is the problem. Within a year, it should come through," Kutty, who is leading a CII business delegation to Muscat, was quoted as saying by daily 'Times of Oman' yesterday.

CII is pressing the government and local trade bodies in all countries to speed up the process, he said.

The six GCC countries