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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Monday personally received UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan astatine the airdrome successful New Delhi, a peculiar motion asserting the adjacent ties betwixt the 2 countries, arsenic the visiting person arrived for a little but high-level authoritative sojourn expected to past astir 2 hours.MBZ’s visit, undertaken astatine the invitation of Prime Minister Modi, comes amid heightened developments successful West Asia.
Taking to societal media level X, the Prime Minister said, "Went to the airdrome to invited my brother, His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE. His sojourn illustrates the value helium attaches to a beardown India-UAE friendship. Looking guardant to our discussions."
According to the ministry of outer affairs (MEA), the sojourn builds connected the momentum generated by caller high-level exchanges, including the September 2024 sojourn of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and the April 2025 sojourn of Dubai Crown Prince and UAE lawman premier curate Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.Talks betwixt PM Modi and Sheikh Mohamed are scheduled for aboriginal successful the evening and are expected to absorption connected advancing the India-UAE Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, arsenic good arsenic an speech of views connected determination and planetary issues of communal interest, the MEA said.This marks Sheikh Mohamed’s 3rd authoritative sojourn to India since assuming bureau arsenic UAE President, and his 5th sojourn to the state successful the past decade, reflecting the frequence of top-level engagement betwixt New Delhi and Abu Dhabi.
The sojourn coincides with ongoing diplomatic enactment related to West Asia, with the United States preparing to determination to the adjacent signifier of its Gaza Peace Plan, which includes the projected National Committee for the medication of Gaza. Prime Minister Modi has been invited by US President Donald Trump to beryllium portion of the Gaza Peace Board, according to a White House statement.India and the UAE person seen sustained engagement crossed political, economical and defence domains successful caller months.
Earlier this month, Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi visited the UAE to fortify subject cooperation, portion outer affairs curate S Jaishankar travelled to Abu Dhabi successful December for the India-UAE associated committee Meeting and strategical dialogue.India and the UAE stock beardown political, economical and people-to-people ties, supported by frameworks specified arsenic the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), the Local Currency Settlement strategy and a Bilateral Investment Treaty. The 2 countries besides cooperate intimately astatine multilateral forums including the UN, BRICS, I2U2 and the UAE-France-India trilateral.According to the MEA, Sheikh Mohamed’s abbreviated sojourn provides an accidental for some leaders to reappraisal advancement successful bilateral ties and place caller areas of practice amid evolving determination dynamics.(With inputs from agency)
