Foreign Secretary Misri in UAE for talks on ties and the West Asia crisis
Vikram Misri met the UAE's special envoy to India, Reem Al Hashimy, in Abu Dhabi, with the Gulf war and Hormuz shipping high on the region's agenda.
Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri is on an official visit to the United Arab Emirates, where he met Reem Al Hashimy, the UAE's Minister of State and Special Envoy to India, the Indian Embassy in Abu Dhabi said, according to an IANS report on Monday.
The two "reviewed the entire gamut of India-UAE bilateral relations and discussed ways to further deepen the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership", the embassy said in a post on X, as reported by IANS. They "also exchanged views on the situation in West Asia and global issues of mutual interest." India's ambassador, Deepak Mittal, received Misri on arrival.
The visit comes less than two weeks after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar hosted the UAE's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in Mumbai on 20 October, IANS reported.
The UAE is one of India's largest trading partners and home to a large Indian community, and it sits at the edge of the Gulf, where the eight-month US-Iran conflict has disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran said on Monday it could reopen the strait within two days if the US met its conditions. Neither side announced any new agreement from the meeting.
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