The visiting Crown Prince of Dubai, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Tuesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in addition to Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and mentioned commerce ties and stepping up defence manufacturing collaboration.
The Crown Prince, who can also be the UAE’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, met Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar as nicely.
Modi posted on X after the assembly: “Dubai has performed a key position in advancing the India-UAE Complete Strategic Partnership. This particular go to reaffirms our deep-rooted friendship and paves the best way for even stronger collaboration sooner or later.”
Recalling his go to to the UAE final yr throughout which he participated within the World Authorities Summit in Dubai as Visitor of Honour, the Prime Minister mentioned Sheikh Hamdan’s go to “signified generational continuity within the robust and historic ties between India and the UAE, emphasizing the enduring partnership constructed on mutual belief and a shared imaginative and prescient for the longer term”.
“They mentioned methods to additional strengthen the India-UAE Complete Strategic Partnership, particularly within the areas of commerce, investments, defence, power, expertise, schooling, sports activities and people-to-people ties,” a PMO assertion mentioned.
PM Modi expressed his gratitude to the management of the UAE for making certain the welfare of round 4.3 million Indians dwelling within the UAE, the assertion mentioned.
In accordance with a Defence Ministry assertion, Rajnath and Sheikh Hamdan “expressed happiness on the present defence cooperation by means of institutional mechanisms, army workout routines, trade of coaching programmes”.
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“Each ministers acknowledged that defence cooperation must be scaled as much as match the progress made in different areas reminiscent of commerce and enterprise… They recognized coaching exchanges as one of many key areas of defence cooperation,” it mentioned.
In accordance with the assertion, the 2 leaders mentioned that shut collaboration between the defence industries ought to be an integral a part of the bilateral cooperation. In addition they mentioned alternatives for enhancing their partnership in defence manufacturing.
Rajnath posted on X that the Complete Strategic Partnership with the UAE is of immense precedence for India. “Within the coming years, we’re desperate to work carefully in areas reminiscent of defence cooperation, co-production and co-development tasks, innovation and expertise. Each India and the UAE are dedicated to work in the direction of peace and prosperity within the area,” he mentioned.
The Defence Cooperation MoU with the UAE was signed in 2003, and an MoU on Defence Business Cooperation was signed in 2017.
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Earlier within the day, Exterior Affairs Minister Jaishankar welcomed the Crown Prince, who was on his first official go to to India.
He was welcomed with a ceremonial guard of honour and acquired by Union Minister of State for Tourism & Petroleum and Pure Fuel, Suresh Gopi.
Following engagements in Delhi, he’ll go to Mumbai and take part in a enterprise roundtable involving prime Indian and Emirati enterprise leaders.
The roundtable will discover alternatives for elevated commerce and funding in conventional sectors reminiscent of infrastructure and power, in addition to rising fields like fintech, innovation and sustainability.
The interplay is aimed toward additional accelerating financial cooperation and shaping a forward-looking industrial partnership between the 2 nations.
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Dubai has been a hub in India’s industrial and cultural exchanges with the UAE. The robust people-to-people ties are underpinned by the big Indian diaspora within the Emirates — estimated at 4.3 million — with a big majority residing in Dubai.
In a put up on X, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA), Randhir Jaiswal, mentioned that the Crown Prince’s go to marked a big milestone within the India-UAE relationship.