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Prime Minister Modi To Have Packed Schedule During UAE Visit

Modi looks to hold talks on energy, security and infrastructural investments with UAE.

Narendra Modi, prime minister of India waves at the media while exiting the airplane. (Source: PM India Website)
Narendra Modi, prime minister of India waves at the media while exiting the airplane. (Source: PM India Website)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have a busy schedule in the United Arab Emirates, with meetings lined up with the country's leaders, the Indian community and businessmen.

Modi will reach UAE on Saturday from Palestine, and then will have bilateral engagements in Abu Dhabi followed by a banquet, India's ambassador to the UAE Navdeep Singh Suri said. This would be Modi's second visit to the country. He had visited the UAE in 2015.

On Sunday, the Prime Minister will go to Dubai where he will watch the live streaming of a Hindu temple inauguration ceremony and address the Indian community gathered at the Opera House. The UAE is home to over three million people of Indian origin.

He will proceed to the venue of the World Government Summit where he will deliver a keynote address. He has meetings lined up with Gulf business leaders. Modi will also meet the Ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid and visit a painting exhibition by Ramesh Shukla, Suri said.

Modi had said energy, security and infrastructural investments in India would be the key topics that he will discuss with the UAE's leadership. The investment from the UAE to India exceeds $11 billion.

Watch this conversation with Jawaharlal Nehru University Professor AK Pasha on Modi’s West Asia visit.