The Prime Minister of India, Mr. Narendra Modi is on a 3 Nation visit to Palestine, UAE and Oman. This visit has been planned with an agenda of strengthening India's engagement with the West Asian and the Gulf region.
- This will be his fifth visit to the West Asian region since 2015.
Highlights of his visit
- Modi will first visit Jordan on 9th February 2018 which is a pit-stop in his tour to Palestine, the UAE, and Oman.
- He is scheduled to meet King Abdullah II in Amman.
- The three-nation tour will include his first-ever prime ministerial visit to Palestine, where he will hold discussions with President Mahmoud Abbas.
- Modi’s Palestine visit will begin on 10 February after transiting through Jordan.
- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had met Modi last year and had invited him to visit Palestine.
- President Abbas has mentioned that he would discuss the possible role India can play in enhancing peace in the region.
- A formal discussion would be held between the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
- Efforts would be made to reach to a final agreement based on international consensus and resolutions, in which India and other countries can be part of.
- The Indian Prime Minister will lay a wreath at the memorial for Yasser Arafat, who headed the Palestine Liberation Organization and later also headed the Palestinian National Authority till his death in 2004.
- Over at least five decades, New Delhi has consistently supported the Palestinian cause, recognising it as a state in 1988.
- He will then head on to the UAE, where he will address the 6th edition of the World Government Summit.
- PM Modi will meet the Sultan of Oman on the evening of 11 February.
- On the final day of his visit on 12 February, PM Modi will interact with Omani industry players.
- Energy and security cooperation will be the top agenda of PM Modi's visit, along with trade and investments and counter-terror efforts. During his visit, Modi will also meet Indian expatriates in the UAE and in Oman.
