As a person of high holding position, they are required to travel the world as part of their duty to strengthen the bond between the nations.
The UAE and India are looking to sign up to 14 agreements and memoranda of understandings during the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 10-11, a top UAE diplomat said on Tuesday.
“We are expecting to sign between 12 to 14 agreements during the visit of prime minister Modi,” Ahmad Al Banna, UAE Ambassador to India, said during an interaction with UAE media in New Delhi. The agreements will include sectors such as finance, space technology, and skills development, he said.
“During the first visit of prime minister Modi to the UAE [in 2015] there were about 14 agreements that were signed; during the visit of His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, there were 17 agreements signed, and last year another 14 agreements were signed. The historical relations between UAE and India have always been there, but they have now diversified to new sectors such as IT, space technology, defense manufacturing, security, counter-terror cooperation, education and renewable energy, mainly due to the successful visits of Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed and Modi,” Al Banna said.
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Modi will be the keynote speaker at the 6th World Government Summit in Dubai on February 11, in which India is the chief guest, he said.
“(At the Summit) PM Modi will address a gathering of over 2,000 people, more than 26 heads of state, the Prime Minister s ministers and more than 2,000 delegates from all over the world,” Al Banna said while addressing a conference in New Delhi to mark the Abu Dhabi-India Week.
This will be PM Modi’s second visit to the UAE. He first visited the country in August 2015.
According to the Ambassador, these visits are important for enhancing and strengthening the bilateral relations.
“If we look at the investment from UAE to India, it exceeds USD 11 billion, about USD 4-5 billion in the format of FDI (foreign direct investment),” Al Banna said.
He pointed out that around 2.8 million Indians are living harmoniously in the UAE and repatriating USD 13.6 billion a year from the Gulf nation to India.
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TEMPLE FOUNDATION IN THE EMIRATES
Besides being the guest of honor at the World Government Summit and meeting rulers, community members, businessmen, Modi will also be laying the foundation stone for Abu Dhabi’s first Hindu temple through a video link from Dubai on Sunday.
Indian Ambassador to the UAE Navdeep Singh Suri said the temple will be a beacon of Indian culture and also the UAE’s own spirit of tolerance. Modi will also pay tribute at the UAE’s war memorial Wahat Al Karama.
“The prime minister will be in Abu Dhabi on Saturday evening. As part of the state visit component, he will hold discussions with His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces. There will be a banquet. Also, there will be agreements that will be signed. On the second day after a stopover at Wahat Al Karama he will leave for Dubai. There he will engage in the second component of the visit, which is engaged with a small representation of the Indian community.”
Modi will then lay the foundation stone of the temple at the Dubai Opera House.
“I want to give special gratitude to Sheikh Mohamed for his generosity and graciousness in providing a very large tract of land for this temple. I am pretty confident that once this temple comes up, it will be a beacon not only of Indian culture here but also the UAE’s own spirit of tolerance that celebrates diversity and enables all community the space to practice their religion, culture, identity, and language,” he added.
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