PM Modi Arrived: Become first Indian Prime Minister to visit Palestine

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi become the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Palestine after arriving here on Saturday. 

Modi was received by his Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah after alighting from a helicopter that brought him to Ramallah from Jordan capital Amman.

Modi will hold talks with Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas following which a number of agreements are going to be signed.

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This will be the fourth meeting between Modi and Abbas after those on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in 2015, at the Paris climate summit later that year and at the Palestinian President’s visit to India last year.

Palestine is the first leg of Modi’s three-nation tour of West Asia that will also see him going to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman.