PM Modi’s first stop in January 2022 is trusted allies UAE and Kuwait

It is expected that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will open his foreign calendar of 2022 outdoor visits on a trip to the confidence-friendly Emirates united and Kuwait at the beginning of next month.

While the MODI of PM will visit the Dubai 2020 Expo, the true purpose of the visit is to thank both the allies for standing with India during the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic, as well as to take care of the huge diaspora India in these two Emirates. EAUs are no less than four million Indian passports that lead the Indians and Kuwait have almost a million Indian diaspora, which contribute to the Indian economy through remittances, as well as in times of need.

Even though the government is tightened throughout the visit, PM Modi can travel to these two countries in the first 10 days of January 2022. Special emphasis is being paid to these two foreign trips, since both nations are in the heart From abroad of India. Policy towards the Middle East.

Since its first visit to the EAU, by invitation from the Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in August 2015, PM Modi focuses totally on cementing ties with Abu Dhabi with the Foreign Minister, Jaishankar who returns from the EAU last Sunday. EAU is the third largest commercial partner in India after us and China with trade volumes that touch more than USD 60 billion. The January 2022 trip would be the fourth visit of Modi to the EAU, a change in the sea from the moment the last pm to visit the United Arab Emirates was Indira Gandhi, 32 years before PM Modi.

India and the United Arab Emirates today have cemented their ties with a new level with the latter by cleaning all the anti-Indian criminal and economic activity of the Gulf’s nation with intense cooperation in the fields of cyber security, the counter- Radicalization, defense and intelligence exchange. “Just as India focuses on Singapore as a diplomatic activity center in East, Abu Dhabi is the other center of the Middle East region to obtain investments in India,” said a former Secretary of Foreign Affairs. India recognizes that EAUs over the years have not only developed a global infrastructure, but it is also a diplomatic activity center in the Middle East. It is also an important power of regional defense, as Empideo when the UAE Emirates of last week decided to buy 80 Rafale fighters and 13 heavy helicopters from France.

Like the United Arab Emirates, Indian links with Kuwait are very special with the latter supplying oxygen cylinders and other medical equipment in large quantities during the second wave of pandemic in India. In fact, EAM Jaishankar flew to Kuwait with a personal letter from PM Modi to Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmed al-Sabah for giving Kuwait for his support and future objectives of deepening ties in energy, trade, information technology and sector From handwork.