New Delhi: India and the UAE are discussing a brief stopover by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Gulf country during his four-nation Europe tour next month. Official sources have clarified that discussions are still in progress and the visit has not been finalized yet.
Modi will be traveling to Norway next month for the India-Nordic summit. Later, he will travel to the Netherlands, Sweden, and Italy. If the PM's proposed stopover in the UAE materializes, it will offer India an important opportunity to express solidarity with a country with which it has one of the most consequential strategic partnerships in the Gulf region.
Modi has already spoken twice to President Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan and condemned the violation of UAE's sovereignty and territorial integrity by Iran, which had launched strikes on GCC countries.
