Today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will leave for a two -day visit to Saudi Arabia 22 April at the invitation of the Crown Prince of the Kingdom Mohammed bin Salman.
Modi meets Prince Salman During the visit to the “further deepening and strengthening” links between the two nations, the Ministry for External Affairs said last week in a statement.
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High-profile Vision underlines a remarkable transformation of the relationships between India-Saudi from modest beginnings to a complex strategic partnership, including economic, defense and cultural dimensions.
Highly profile visit
The visit comes in the middle of a reinforced diplomatic engagement between the two nations. Last year, India carried out 11 visits at the level of ministers in Saudi Arabia.
Visiting Modi in Saudi Arabia is essential for the Geopolitical Order. The world in general, and especially Western Asia, suffers from conflicts impaired by economic tension.
The visit is coming because the tariffs stored by the American administration Donald Trump forced the country to further strengthen business relations with allies to alternative markets.
India and Saudi Arabia are two fastest growing economies in the world. Both countries have the potential to affect the global order as members of the global south and G20. PM Modi and Saudi Crown Prince Salman are in good statements with US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zlensky
New first from PM modi
Modi is the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Jeddah in more than four decades. All his previous visits were in Riyadh, the Saudi capital.
Indira Gandhi was the last Indian Prime Minister who visited Jeddah in 1982.
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The Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Suhel Ajaz Ajaz Khan told either the agency, nor that Modi, together with the Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin, Salman, chairman of the Strategic Partnership Council. The Council was founded during a visit to the Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in India in 2019.
The importance of linking between India and Saudi Arabia is deep, because Jeddah has long served as a port for pilgrims coming for the UMRU and Hajj.
It is located along the Red Sea coast, Jeddah, a commercial center, and is the second largest city in Saudi Arabia after Riyadh. Jeddah is also significant as a gateway to Mecca and Medina, the two most sacred cities of Islam and the place of the annual pilgrimage of Hajj.
“The importance of linking between India and Saudi Arabia, because for centuries Jeddah has been a port for our pilgrims who come for Umrah and Hajj to come to Saudi Arabia,” Khan said.
Israel-Palestine conflict
Visiting India Modi will provide an important opportunity to discuss key regional and global issues. These include the situation in West Asia, the conflict of Israel-Palestine and threats for naval safety due to attacks on Houthi, said Foreign Minister Vikram Misri during a special press briefing last week
India and Saudi Arabia is likely to deepen its defense cooperation and expand its economic ties. At present, bilateral trade between the two countries is awarded around $ 43 billion, Misri said.
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Visiting PM Modi is considered to be a significant step in strengthening Indian ties not only with Saudi Arabia, but with the whole bay and the Islamic world, he said.
MODI Visit the factory in Jeddah
Modi is expected to visit the Jeddah factory where Indian workers are employed. He will communicate with them during his time.
Saudi Arabia is an Indian fifth largest business partner and home to 2.7 million Indians who live and work there.
Modi also visits Saudi Arabia at a time when his government in India is facing protests against changes in decades of WAQF Managing Muslim qualities donated to religious and charity purposes.
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