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Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Visit Palestine, UAE and Oman

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The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi taking selfie with HE Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan and HE Dr. Anwar Gargash at the Shiekh Zayed Grand Mosque, at Abu Dhabi, UAE on August 16, 2015.
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The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi taking selfie with HE Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan and HE Dr. Anwar Gargash at the Shiekh Zayed Grand Mosque, at Abu Dhabi, UAE on August 16, 2015.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to visit Palestine, UAE and Oman from 9 to 12 February, 2018.

PM is undertaking first ever historic visit to Palestine. He will be going to Ramallah on February 10. Before formal talks he would be visiting Yasser Arafat’s museum, he will be paying tribute at the ​wreath laying ​ceremony there in the honor of departed leader. Then he will hold official talks with Palestinian leadership and then there will be joint press conference and then after that there will be a banquet lunch after that he will be returning to Oman and from there he will be going to other parts of his trip.

Prime Minister is travelling to UAE and Oman from 10 – 12 February. From Palestine he will reach UAE late in the evening on February 10. This visit is primarily at the invitation of the President of UAE, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and the President wrote about Prime Minister’s participation in the Sixth World Government’s Summit, which is happening in Dubai and in addition to that plural, multilateral arrangement Prime Minister is also going to have a State visit to UAE.

In the last two and half years since Prime Minister first went to UAE in August 2015 there has been a huge intensification of engagement with UAE. Prime Minister’s visit took place after almost 34 years and in the last two and a half years India has seen four high level, head of government visits between UAE and India.

Briefing the press on this visit Jt. Secretary (Gulf), Shri Mridul Kumar said, “The six GCC countries account for almost 20 percent of bilateral trade and by far they are the largest trading regional blocks for India i.e. about $110 billion of trade and out of that oil is a very small portion, a lot of people might think that oil is the major portion, but it is not. If you are looking at the other aspects for example the energy, they are our key source of energy, 50 percent of our oil comes from these countries. Almost 60-65 percent of our energy requirements are sourced from Gulf.”

When Prime Minister reaches Abu Dhabi on February 10 late in the evening from Palestine, he will be hosted by His Highness the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Next morning Prime Minster will travel to Wahat Al Karama which is a memorial that UAE has very recently made in tribute to martyred UAE soldiers in 1971 in the first war on Tunb Island.

From Dubai after the meeting with the CEOs he will travel to Oman and there will be ceremonial reception at the airport and then he will straight away go in for a community event.