INDO-UAE RELATIONS

Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the UAE has emerged as India’s preferred partner in the Gulf. Since the coming to power of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in New Delhi in May 2014, India and UAE have exchanged four high-level visits. These included two by the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan (who is also the Vice President and de facto ruler of the UAE) in February 2016 and January 2017, and two by Prime Minister Modi in August 2015 and February 2018. Additionally, regular meetings between ministers and officials have been held in New Delhi and Abu Dhabi to discuss issues of mutual interest, especially investments in energy sector, increasing defence and security ties and strengthening counter-terror cooperation.

Indo-UAE relations have reached an extraordinary level of friendship and bonhomie with Modi and al-Nahyan developing deep personal rapport as was on display during their meetings. Both leaders have broken their respective diplomatic protocols to receive the other in person during state visits. In an unprecedented gesture, the Crown Prince agreed to visit India in January 2017 without the customary return visit of the Indian leader, in the aftermath of al-Nahyan’s February 2016 visit to India. The two sides have developed a deeper appreciation of each other as a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic society and important members of the global and regional community, as was reflected in the joint statement issued during the visit of Prime Minister Modi to the UAE in August 2015.Notably, the prime minister attended the foundation laying ceremony of the first Hindu Temple in Abu Dhabi during his February 2018 visit
In January 2017, during the visit of Crown Prince al-Nahyan to New Delhi as chief guest for Republic Day celebrations, India and the UAE signed a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP) agreement to give a new impetus to the strong bilateral relations. The focus areas underlined in the CSP were economy with emphasis on two-way flow of investments, counter-terror cooperation and defence ties. Since then, the two sides have been working to realize the goals of forging a strong strategic partnership through regular exchange of visits, improve bilateral trade and investments, greater understanding of security concerns and vulnerabilities and readiness to harness on the momentum created due to greater political understanding.
India and the UAE have signed a number of agreements including for a 10 per cent participating interest to a consortium of Indian oil companies in the Lower Zakum offshore oil field in February 2018 and for Emirati participation in operationalizing India’s strategic oil reserve in Mangalore. However, there are concerns about the slow progress in realization of the US$75 billion investment fund from the UAE for infrastructure development in India that was agreed in August 2015. In this context, the June 24-30, 2018 visit of Foreign Minister of the UAE Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan acquires significance.


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